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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Tara Brach

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
Desire
Live
Without
Enlarges
Observing
Choose
Acting
Freedom

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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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If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.
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The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
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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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If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.
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Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
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Allowing another to be as they are is more what I think of as space. The space to express yourself and know that you're going to be accepted. That's more where I go than with the actual physical logistics of how much time you have together and how much time you have apart.
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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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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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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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