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Tara Brach Quotes about Suffering

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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Tara Brach
Suffering, Attention, Belief

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

Tara Brach
Compassion, Suffering, Action
"Compassion" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

Tara Brach
Suffering, Who We Are, Fullness
Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.4, 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

There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.

Tara Brach
Moving, Suffering, Culture
Source: www.tarabrach.com

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

Tara Brach
Mom, Mother, Suffering
Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.216, Random House

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