Tara Brach Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• 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.

  Tara Brach

  Home, Emotional, Compassion

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.73, Bantam

• Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Suffering, Action

  "Compassion" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.

• Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

  Tara Brach

  Responsibility, Compassion, Self

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.207, Random House

• The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually you’ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart.

  Tara Brach

  Letting Go, Home, Heart

  "Taking Your Hands Off the Controls". Article by Tara Brach, www.tarabrach.com. April 3, 2015.

• Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Relaxation, Doorways

• We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

  Tara Brach

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Compassion

  "Radical Acceptance of Desire" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

• Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.163, Bantam

• Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Heart, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Understood, Collectives

• The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and loved, we fixate our attention on that person and what's wrong with them. We also fixate on what's wrong with us. Instead, we can bring forward two wings of awareness: the wing of mindfulness (noticing what's going on inside us) and the wing of kindness (compassion to what's going on inside us).

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Mistake, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Absolute Love, Love And Compassion

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

• In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Self, Essence

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

• It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart," or "I'm sorry and I love you."

  Tara Brach

  Sorry, Love You, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Compassion, Wings

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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