Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
We may still feel fear, but we are above the line, reconnected to a larger space of presence and self-compassion.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
When we encounter the difficult ones like hurt or fear and acknowledge “this belongs,” there’s a natural sense of enlarging and more ease with what is moving through us.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
When we’re stuck and reactive, anxiety feels totally personal—a negative commentary about ourselves.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
When we resist fear, we are living partially below the line—identified with the fear, and cut off from our full lucidity and presence.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
With practice, we discover that when our resistance is gone, the demons are gone.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
And when I get stuck in painful emotions, it brings me to a repeating realization, an insight that has profoundly changed my life: I have to love myself into healing.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
Especially when fear is intense, we’re afraid we’ll drown in it, be annihilated.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
Sometimes our unwillingness to experience our feelings shows up as depression.
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
a fear of actually feeling your fear that keeps suffering locked in place.