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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
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Relaxation
Compassion
Wisdom

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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
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Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.
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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
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If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to the sweetness of belonging, is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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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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Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.
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We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
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I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
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We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.
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If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another person to satisfy my need, I'm actually going right to where the needs come from and able to bring a real healing.
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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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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There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.
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