Tara Brach Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Mind, Moments

• Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.

  Tara Brach

  Dog, Pain, Heart

• Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved.

  Tara Brach

  Healing, Heart, Hands

• 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.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Acceptance, Feelings

  "Accepting Absolutely Everything" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

• 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

  Kindness, Healing, Heart

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.215, Bantam

• The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually you’ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart.

  Tara Brach

  Letting Go, Home, Heart

  "Taking Your Hands Off the Controls". Article by Tara Brach, www.tarabrach.com. April 3, 2015.

• Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.

  Tara Brach

  Wise, Running, Art

• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Book, Teaching

  "Where Do We Find Peace and Freedom? An Interview With Tara Brach, Ph.D". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

• This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Reading, Heart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Heart, Self

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.26, Bantam

• Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

  Tara Brach

  Letting Go, Grief, Heart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

  Tara Brach

  Lost Love, Heart, Love Life

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

  Tara Brach

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

• Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Heart, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Our World, Mystery

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

• Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, People, Focus

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Acceptance, Radical

  "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha". Book by Tara Brach, www.psychologytoday.com. November 23, 2004.

• Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Towers, Body

• When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

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  Kindness, Heart, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting with others in a more authentic way. It's a movement from head to heart.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Feelings, Movement

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  Tara Brach

  Falling In Love, Children, Grateful

  "A Heart That Is Ready for Anything" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

• Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Offering, Moments

• When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me in a certain way, in my mind, it means they don't love me or they don't respect me. Bringing awareness to the beliefs that are underneath the attachment and bringing awareness to the way my body and heart are tightening, helps me wake up and re-inhabit a larger space of being. Holding on and pushing away might be going on but I'm freer to respond in a healthy way.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Mean, Attachment

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Space, Mind

• The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Heart, Our World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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