Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
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"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"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. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved"
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha