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Experience Quotes by Tara Brach
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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.…
- We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we…
- The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed…
- Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance.…
- Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood