Tara Brach Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Suffering, Action

  "Compassion" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.

• Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Attention, Belief

• The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Passing Away, Desire

  "Radical Acceptance of Desire" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

• When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

  Tara Brach

  Pain, Grief, Healing

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.202, Random House

• We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

  Tara Brach

  Mom, Mother, Suffering

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.216, Random House

• Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

  Tara Brach

  Wisdom, Attitude, Challenges

• 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.

• Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Desire, Ends

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Suffering, Culture

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

• In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Acceptance, Judging

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

• As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Who We Are, Fullness

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.4, Random House

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