Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting with others in a more authentic way. It's a movement from head to heart.
Tara Brach
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
Way
Turn
Connects
Head
Grounds
Turns
Connecting
Making
Authentic
Experience
Creates
Feelings
Inner
Others
Thoughts
Heart
Movement
More quotes by Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.
Tara Brach
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Tara Brach
When we open to love, we become love.
Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
Tara Brach
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
Tara Brach
Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
Tara Brach
If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.
Tara Brach
When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.
Tara Brach
Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.
Tara Brach
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.
Tara Brach
In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.
Tara Brach
I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at times, especially when there are unmet needs. It's part of our nervous system to hold on to where we think those needs will be met.
Tara Brach
I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me.
Tara Brach
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
Tara Brach