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Tara Brach (born May 17, 1953) is an American psychologist and proponent of Buddhist meditation. She is a guiding teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. (IMCW). Dr. Brach teaches her Wednesday night meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. Her colleagues include Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein and others in the Vipassana or Insight meditation tradition. Brach also teaches about Buddhist meditation at centers for meditation and yoga in the United States and Europe including Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, the Kripalu Center, and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies.

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There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that`s here.

Division, Healing, Path, World

We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.

Changing, Left, Life, Long, Order, Waiting

Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.

Believe, Excuses, Real, Self, Ways

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

Attachment, Biologically, Children, Healthy, Mother

I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

Buddhism, Buddhist, Lives, Patterns, Person, Thinking

When caught in conflict and blame - make a U-turn and shift your attention from blaming thoughts to what's going on emotionally in your body.

Attention, Blame, Blaming, Body

I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me. " Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.

Culture, Epidemics, Families, Level, Mean, Sense

Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.

Capacity, Focus, Heart, Meditation, People, Resourcefulness

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

Beauty, Heart, Hearts, Mystery, Our World, Touched

With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.

Drama, Feelings, Mindfulness, Recognize, Training

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

Appreciate, Defense, Persons, Down, Disagree

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

Access, Body, Emotions, Jumping, Point, Stories

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. . . We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.

Back, Inner, People, Perhaps, Voice, Years

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

Grief, Writing, Mobility, Refuge, Write

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Finding, Findings, Happiness, Lying, Missing

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

Compassion, Doorway, Doorways, Relaxation, Wisdom

The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually you’ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart.

Atmosphere, Desperately, Heart, Home, Letting Go, Time

Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect. ' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

Buddhist, Hey, Practice, Saying, Wake Up

It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning those stories will be a fruitless looping until we learn how to move from the story into our body. This is why therapy alone often doesn't bring full healing and awakening.

Bring, Healing, Looping, Moving, Work, Work Out

Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.

Each Day, Expecting, Expecting Something In Return, Favor, Kindness, Return

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