Tara Brach Quotes

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now.

You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

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.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

Operate from a place of love, be kind, and be yourself.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

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

The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.

You learn to accept your own reality.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.