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Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

Tara Brach

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
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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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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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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.
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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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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.
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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, Afraid of loving, then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.
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If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving.
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I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.
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Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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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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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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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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