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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.

Tara Brach

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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Beautiful Heart Mystery Ourselves Poetry Touch World
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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Acceptance Basic Hold Judgement Kindness Mindset Way
When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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Alive Awake Body Discover Ourselves World
The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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Connection Kindness Mindset Ourselves Wings World
We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
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Change Different Feeling Happiness Life Live Wait
People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Angry Conflict Feeling People
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Beautiful End Offering Ourselves Pursuit Spirit
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Act Choice Desire Freedom Live
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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Dance Each Grace Kind Person Space Togetherness Truth Vulnerable
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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Happiness Lying Missing Present
Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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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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Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.

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