Tara Brach Quotes about Desire

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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Tara Brach

Desire, Acting, Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.158, Random House

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

Tara Brach

Suffering, Desire, Ends

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

Tara Brach

Suffering, Passing Away, Desire

"Radical Acceptance of Desire" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.

Tara Brach

Suffering, Desire, Identity

Source: www.psychologytoday.com