Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
TARA BRACHAwakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
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Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person’s vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that’s very fluid and graceful.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
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When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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