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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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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
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Most of us grew up with a very damaging story that something is wrong with us. Gradually - or as in my case, suddenly - we become resolved not to believe this anymore. It takes a dedicated practice to follow up on that resolution, because the conditioning is very strong to keep generating self-demeaning stories.
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Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before. The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the trance of unworthiness.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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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.
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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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I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
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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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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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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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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.
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People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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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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