Quote

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

Tara Brach

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
Way
Easiest
Loves
Appreciate
Eyes
Looking
Eye
Someone
Sometimes

More quotes by Tara Brach

Image
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.
Tara Brach
Image
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.
Tara Brach
Image
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
Tara Brach
Image
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.
Tara Brach
Image
Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others.
Tara Brach
Image
I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
Tara Brach
Image
It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.
Tara Brach
Image
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.
Tara Brach
Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
Tara Brach
Image
You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.
Tara Brach
Image
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection.
Tara Brach
Image
If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
Tara Brach
Image
In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.
Tara Brach
Image
Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
Tara Brach
Image
Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
Tara Brach
Image
People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
Tara Brach
Image
Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
Tara Brach
Image
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
Tara Brach
Image
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
Image
I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
Tara Brach