Keith Collingwood

“Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

“Radical Acceptance reverses our habit of living at war with experiences that are unfamiliar, frightening or intense. It is the necessary antidote to years of neglecting ourselves, years of judging and treating ourselves harshly, years of rejecting this moment’s experience. Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is. A moment of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Most people fear that if they embrace this type of self-kindness, it will simply enable them to stay unfunctional forever. I think this fear is unfounded. I don’t believe in laziness, but even if I did the good news is that self-kindness is extremely motivating. It might be that when you first start giving yourself full permission to rest without guilt you find yourself resting a lot. Maybe that’s what your body and mind need. Research shows that people who report feeling burnout can take months or even years before they start feeling recovered”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning