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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
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If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do this. You can have a gratitude buddy, someone with whom, at the end of the day, you exchange messages listing these three things you are grateful for. Also, you can journal it or reflect on it silently.
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That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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