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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
Observing
Choose
Acting
Freedom
Desire
Live
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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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People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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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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Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.
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Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.
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