Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that… — 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
If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
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
If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the… — 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
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention -… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
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… — 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… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I sometimes call this our "spacesuit self" because we come into an environment that is difficult and challenging, where we're told to… — 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
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
Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The fear side can have us pull away and protect us, but it's really a withdrawal, a disassociation, a cutting off. Rather… — 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
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
If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do… — 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
