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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
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
Evolution
Meditation
Bring
Full
Potential
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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.
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If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
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Meditation can change the flavor of the season.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.
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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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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.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.
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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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If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do this. You can have a gratitude buddy, someone with whom, at the end of the day, you exchange messages listing these three things you are grateful for. Also, you can journal it or reflect on it silently.
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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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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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It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.
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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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