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There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.
Tara Brach
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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
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It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.
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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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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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I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.
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Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.
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Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
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We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
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Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others.
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Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.
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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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Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.
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There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.
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Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.
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