I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

Tara Brach
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More Quotes By Tara Brach
  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

  4. In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

  5. I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

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