158 Quotes by Tara Brach

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'