Tara Brach Quotes

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go.

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

When you stop resisting your emotions, you will quickly realize that your feelings are your friends. They are your soul's way to communicate with you and are meant to guide and inform you.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

You learn to accept your own reality.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd learnt that younger - I would have relaxed a bit more.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

I have so much self-acceptance.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.