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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
Loving
Greatest
Open
Fear
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Communion
Rejected
Intimacy

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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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The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.
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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.
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I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
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With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.
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In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.
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I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.
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Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.
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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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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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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.
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In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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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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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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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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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
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