Tara Brach

“It is the willingness to be with what we feel that transforms what we feel.”

“To listen with the heart is the most healing gift you can give.”

“The miracle is not that we have suffered, but that we can love through suffering.”

“Grace happens when we give up trying to control.”

“The most basic instruction is: pay attention with kindness.”

“When we are truly present, judgment falls away.”

“Every honest moment of presence is a homecoming.”

“You don't have to earn love. You don't have to deserve love. Love is your birthright.”

“Self-compassion is not weakness. It is the courage to be human.”

“In any moment, you can take one conscious breath, and that is enough to begin.”

“The trance of unworthiness keeps us asleep to our own beauty.”

“To be free, we must learn to inhabit our experience fully.”

“What lives in the present moment lives forever.”

“Love is the willingness to remain in relationship.”

“Let your heart break open. That is where compassion is born.”

“The opposite of trauma is not freedom from pain. It is the capacity to be present with whatever arises.”

“What we can name, we can hold. What we can hold, we can heal.”

“Find a moment, every day, to remember who you are beneath the doing.”

“There is a deeper rest available than sleep — the rest of pure awareness.”