Tara Brach Quotes
We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.
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By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.
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Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
