The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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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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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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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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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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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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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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what’s happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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