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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.

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.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Expecting Something In Return, Each Day
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Healing, Heart
Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.215, Bantam

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Heart, Self
Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.26, Bantam

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Heart, Our World
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness."

Tara Brach
Powerful, Kindness, Gestures
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The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.

Tara Brach
Beautiful, Children, Kindness

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Acceptance, Judging
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The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and loved, we fixate our attention on that person and what's wrong with them. We also fixate on what's wrong with us. Instead, we can bring forward two wings of awareness: the wing of mindfulness (noticing what's going on inside us) and the wing of kindness (compassion to what's going on inside us).

Tara Brach
Kindness, Mistake, Compassion
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Heart, World
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Compassion, Wings
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Acceptance, Feelings
Source: www.tarabrach.com

This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.

Tara Brach
Kindness, Reading, Heart
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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