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As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.
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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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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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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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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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Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.
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In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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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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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.
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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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If [kids] get into loving relationships, they're afraid they'll be found wanting, won't have the looks or body shape our culture deems worthy. Many of us feel we're falling short and if we start feeling close to another person, that we'll be found out and rejected.
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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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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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