Tara Brach

If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.

— Tara Brach

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

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We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist.

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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…

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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

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Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

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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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Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The…

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“Attention is the most basic form of love. By paying attention we let ourselves be touched by life , and our hearts…

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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We…

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Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting…

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We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of…

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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…

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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…

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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax…

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To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing.…

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Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just…

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“Most of the time Marilyn's mother remained unconscious, her breath labored and erratic. One morning before dawn, she suddenly opened her eyes…

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“Radical Acceptance reverses our habit of living at war with experiences that are unfamiliar, frightening or intense. It is the necessary antidote…

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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…

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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…

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“When radical acceptance blossoms in our relationships, it becomes a kind of spiritual re-parenting that enables us to trust the goodness and…

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If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do…

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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 remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

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“I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.”

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By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.

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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

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There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

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Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

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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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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

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Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

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Mindfulness is a pause -- the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

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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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