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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
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
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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.
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.
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Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.
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There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.
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There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that`s here.
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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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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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I speak a lot about what I call the trance of unworthiness which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of I'm not enough, or something's wrong with me. Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.
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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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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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