As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became inc…

Tara Brach
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As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them. ✨ Tara Brach (2012). Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame, p.120, Random House
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The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection. ✨ Tara Brach (2012). Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and … ▶
Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we mis … ▶
When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them. ✨ Tara Brach (2012). Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame, p.120, Random House

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