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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
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World
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Unworthiness
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Pain
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As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning 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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Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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