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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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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
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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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Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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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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With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.
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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
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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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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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I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.
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