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“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”
Brach connects our capacity for acceptance directly to our experience of freedom.
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom and kindness expands that boundary”
— Tara Brach
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns”
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom”
“The moment we believe something is wrong with us we abandon the healing power of our own presence”
“Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is and from there healing flows”
“In any moment we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and that softening is healing”
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
— Lao Tzu
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
— Zhuangzi
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
— Epictetus
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
— Thomas Merton