Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
TARA BRACHNothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.
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The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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