Tara Brach Quotes

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.