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When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
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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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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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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
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Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
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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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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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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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When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, Darling, I care about your suffering, a deep healing begins.
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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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It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.
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There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them
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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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