Radical Acceptance Quotes

• On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Perfection, Sacred

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• Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Radical, Our Lives

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• Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Letting Go, Acceptance, Judging

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• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Appreciation, Hypnosis

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• Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...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

  Years, Voice, People

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• 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.

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• If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.

  Mastin Kipp

  Inspiring, Running, Yoga

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• 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.

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• Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

  Tara Brach

  Imperfection, Problem, Natural

  "Get the Love You Want — #emergingnow" by Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2015.

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• Acceptance is the only way out of hell.

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Acceptance, Way, Hell

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• The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

  Rumi

  Dark, Doors, Laughing

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

  Tara Brach

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Compassion

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

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• Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

  Tara Brach

  Desire, Acting, Freedom To Choose

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.158, Random House

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• 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.

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• The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Boundaries, Accepting

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• Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

  Tara Brach

  Dream, Years, Tragedy

  "Embracing Life With Radical Acceptance' by Alivia Hall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2016.

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• In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power.

  Tara Brach

  Fighting, Long, Safety

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.64, Random House

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• The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Acceptance, Feelings

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Reading, Acceptance

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• What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

  Tara Brach

  Moments, Accepting, If I Could

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• The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.

  Tara Brach

  Relax, Safe, Messages

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• 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.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Pain, Believe

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• The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

  Tara Brach

  Imperfection, Anxiety, Taught

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.21, Random House

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• Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."

  Tara Brach

  Real, Real Life, Happenings

  "When We Don't Make Anything 'Wrong'" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would be more love in the world. I'm not talking about rainbows and unicorns and '70s Coca-Cola commercials. I'm talking about gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. A good, goofy kind of love.

  Brené Brown

  Acceptance, Thinking, Talking

  "Brené Brown to Deliver Opening Keynote at EWlive14". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, blog.emergingwomen.com. July 1, 2014.

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