Tara Brach Quotes

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

I think the best way people can connect to you is by being real

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

I have a way of opening up people and gaining their trust. I think they can see my vulnerability because I'm unafraid to admit if something doesn't quite work.

Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.