The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
TARA BRACHThrough 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.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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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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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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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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When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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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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By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
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