Tara Brach Quotes About Vulnerability

Quotes about: Vulnerability

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Practice, Wake Up

• If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another person to satisfy my need, I'm actually going right to where the needs come from and able to bring a real healing.

  Tara Brach

  Real, Healing, Attachment

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Space, Together

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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