Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
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.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
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. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at times, especially… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
