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We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
Rejected
Intimacy
Loving
Greatest
Open
Fear
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Communion

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If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.
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That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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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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