Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
TARA BRACHLonging, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
More Tara Brach Quotes
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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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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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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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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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With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany 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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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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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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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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Self-judgment continues to arise – it’s a strong habit – but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.
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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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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.
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