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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.

Tara Brach

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
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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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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 our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.
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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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Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
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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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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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I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.
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Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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