All Tara Brach Quotes
- Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion. Both
- The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as… Beings
- When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is. Down
- 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. Find
- Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in… Arise
- If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our… Capacities
- Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from… Action
- Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love. Attention
- The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a… Company
- Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of… Action
- What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if… Busyness
- 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 can… Aware
- When we open to love, we become love. Become Love
- Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness,… Arise
- When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is… Fear
- We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external… Attaching
- If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world. Beauty
- As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.' Express
- You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding… Good
- Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs. Attention