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Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
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Full
Potential
Strategy
Evolution
Meditation

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That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
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The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection.
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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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.
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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, Afraid of loving, then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
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If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring as compassionate and honest attention to it as possible. Honor that this is part of being human, but it's important to know when it's getting in the way.
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If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.
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Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
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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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