Tara Brach Quotes

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• Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
• As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day…
• When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our…
• Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
• The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of…
• On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
• Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just “real life.
• What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?
• Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
• As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . .…
• There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
• We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.
• Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our…
• Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
• Mindfulness is a pause -- the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
• In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to…
• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be…
• 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. We find true…
• When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are…

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