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Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
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Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
Tara Brach
I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
Tara Brach
Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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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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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.
Tara Brach
There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.
Tara Brach
Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting with others in a more authentic way. It's a movement from head to heart.
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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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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.
Tara Brach
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Meditation can change the flavor of the season.
Tara Brach
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
If [kids] get into loving relationships, they're afraid they'll be found wanting, won't have the looks or body shape our culture deems worthy. Many of us feel we're falling short and if we start feeling close to another person, that we'll be found out and rejected.
Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
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