Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Tara BrachRead
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of finding inner peace and embracing life regardless of its challenges.
Tara Brach reflects on her personal journey towards achieving inner peace and emotional resilience. Through her prayer, she expresses a desire to love life in all its complexities, even amidst losses and difficulties. This quote highlights the significance of cultivating an inner refuge—a state of wholeness and presence—that can support one through life's inevitable ups and downs.
Themes
PeaceLoveLifeInner RefugeResilience
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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All quotes →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.
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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.
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We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.
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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.
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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.
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