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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.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
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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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People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.
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If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.
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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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I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.
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People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.
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If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.
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If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.
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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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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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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
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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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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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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.
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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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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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