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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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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
Lifetime
Begin
Tenderly
Undo
Treating
Revolutionary
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If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.
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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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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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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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Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
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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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When we open to love, we become love.
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I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.
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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.
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Meditation can change the flavor of the season.
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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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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
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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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I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.
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