Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Tara BrachRead
The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
Interpretation
True intimacy comes from vulnerability and honest communication.
This quote by Tara Brach emphasizes the importance of vulnerability and truthfulness in building deep connections with others. It suggests that being open about our feelings and experiences, while treating ourselves with kindness, allows us to interact with others in a meaningful and supportive manner, fostering healing and genuine intimacy.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a relationship workshop to illustrate the importance of openness.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.
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.
We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.
There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.
We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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