All Tara Brach Quotes
- 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
- Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us. Appreciate
- My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence… Became
- Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path. Encounter
- Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts. Bodies
- We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena.… Acceptance
- Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at… Aggression
- I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our… Allows
- I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced… Affected
- Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom… Actually Wake
- Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart. Few