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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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
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Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
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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.
