Tara Brach

“I’m skimming over life and racing to the finish line—death.”

— Tara Brach

Become a witness to your thoughts.

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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

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When we open to love, we become love.

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

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“Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.”

— Tara Brach

To open in a loving way is to let awareness notice that tightening.

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Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

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

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

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

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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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I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this…

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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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We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness…

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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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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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I sometimes call this our "spacesuit self" because we come into an environment that is difficult and challenging, where we're told to…

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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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When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me…

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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising…

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“Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time…

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“Whatever you think or do regularly becomes a habit, a strongly conditioned pathway in the brain. The more you think about what…

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We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love,…

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“If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it…

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“While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening…

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“After several days, I had a pivotal interview with my teacher. When I described how I’d become so overwhelmed, she calmly asked,…

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In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in…

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Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it…

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