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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
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Desire
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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.
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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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.
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The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
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The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
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That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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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.
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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
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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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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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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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