Tara Brach Quotes

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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.

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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.

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Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There's less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what's happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.

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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

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The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

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Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

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The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

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