Quotes from Tara Brach

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

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

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

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.

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

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

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

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

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

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.