Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Tara BrachRead
In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of being present and embracing love to find inner peace.
Tara Brach's quote invites us to recognize that even in our most disoriented moments, we can find solace by grounding ourselves in the present and allowing love into our hearts. It suggests that simply pausing, breathing, and being aware of our experiences can lead to a deeper understanding of our true selves, where peace and freedom reside.
In practice
During a mindfulness workshop, I shared this quote to encourage participants to embrace the moment.
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.
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
The most powerful moral influence is example.
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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