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.
TARA BRACHLonging, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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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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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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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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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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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.
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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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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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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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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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As we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
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