Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.
- Tara Brach
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.
- Tara Brach
the wind telephone -- kaze no denwa -- in Itaru Sasaki's garden, Otsuchi, Japan, near the epicentre of the tsunami in 2011 (
Act One - Really Long Distance, #597 One last thing before I go, This American Life)
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.
- Tara Brach
Miroco Machiko
You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.
- Tara Brach
When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
- Tara Brach
Nothing is wrong — whatever is happening is just "real life".
- Tara Brach
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