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Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
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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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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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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.
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Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
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People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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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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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.
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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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When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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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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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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When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an I have to have kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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