Jenna

“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, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

“Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.”
― Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

“As a friend of mine put it, “Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing.” When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the trance of unworthiness. Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

“I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha