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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.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
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When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an I have to have kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.
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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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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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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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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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Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.
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I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
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People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.
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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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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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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
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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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Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.
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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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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.
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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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