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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.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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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I speak a lot about what I call the trance of unworthiness which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of I'm not enough, or something's wrong with me. Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.
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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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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
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The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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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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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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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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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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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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In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.
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Meditation can change the flavor of the season.
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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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But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them
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