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“But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.” quote by Tara Brach — Download Open image

“But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.”

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It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning…

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The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your…

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

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By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.

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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. If we…

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The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and loved, we fixate our attention on that person and what's wrong with them. We also fixate on what's wrong with us. Instead, we can bring forward two wings of awareness: the wing of mindfulness (noticing what's…

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

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Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

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Become a witness to your thoughts.

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My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of…

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When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly…

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I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at times, especially…

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It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He…

Henry B. Eyring

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is not the limit. Beyond the…

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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Gabrielle Zevin

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely…

With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same…

Brittany Murphy

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Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

Simen Agdestein

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If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has…

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems…

Brandon Sanderson

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It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak…

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The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In…

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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