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Tara Brach Inspirational Quotes (100)

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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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That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring as compassionate and honest attention to it as possible. Honor that this is part of being human, but it's important to know when it's getting in the way.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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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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Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.
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Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.
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I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me.
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This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, Afraid of loving, then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.
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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.
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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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We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.
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If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.
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