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I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.

Tara Brach

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
Love
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Absolute
Compassion
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When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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Allowing another to be as they are is more what I think of as space. The space to express yourself and know that you're going to be accepted. That's more where I go than with the actual physical logistics of how much time you have together and how much time you have apart.
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Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
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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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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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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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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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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.
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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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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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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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That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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If [kids] get into loving relationships, they're afraid they'll be found wanting, won't have the looks or body shape our culture deems worthy. Many of us feel we're falling short and if we start feeling close to another person, that we'll be found out and rejected.
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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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Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, Darling, I care about your suffering, a deep healing begins.
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If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
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