Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
TARA BRACHLonging, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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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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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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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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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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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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We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.
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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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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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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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