Tara Brach Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering, " a deep healing begins.

Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.