Tara Brach Quotes - Page 7

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• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  Tara Brach

  Grief, Writing, Mobility

  "Where Do We Find Peace and Freedom?". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

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  Real, Intimate Relationships, Scary

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

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  Stress, Trying, Wake Up

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.

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  Memories, Feelings, Might

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.

  Tara Brach

  Real, Capacity To Love, Awe And Wonder

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Life Is, Longing

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other.

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  Spiritual, Expression, Community

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

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  Desire, Form, Ifs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

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  Meditation, Brain, Sound

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.

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  Worry, Firsts, Emotion

  "The stress of the holidays — and 2016 — may make this the perfect time to try meditation". www.washingtonpost.com. December 5, 2016.

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• I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me.

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  Mean, Self, Aversion

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• The fear side can have us pull away and protect us, but it's really a withdrawal, a disassociation, a cutting off. Rather than the word detachment, I usually use the word non-attachment. That can be wholesome when we care and are completely engaged with each other but are not attached to things being a certain way.

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  Cutting, Attachment, Withdrawal

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When caught in conflict and blame - make a U-turn and shift your attention from blaming thoughts to what's going on emotionally in your body.

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  Attention, Body, Blame

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

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  Strong, Heart, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.

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  Kindness, Reading, Heart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

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  Self, Psychology, Feelings

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• Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

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  Buddhist, Practice, Wake Up

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• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Book, Teaching

  "Where Do We Find Peace and Freedom? An Interview With Tara Brach, Ph.D". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

  Tara Brach

  Meditation, Full Potential, Evolution

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

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Acceptance, Radical

  "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha". Book by Tara Brach, www.psychologytoday.com. November 23, 2004.

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• It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

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  Essence, Realizing, True Freedom

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.6, Bantam

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

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Understood, Collectives

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