Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame

by Tara Brach

“Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing.”

the world is divided into people who think they are right.

true freedom is being “without anxiety about imperfection.”

Do I accept my emotions and moods as they are?

Am I ashamed of feeling jealous?

Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures Antonio Machado,

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now. Until now. David Whyte

unfaced and unfelt parts of our psyche are the source of all neurosis and suffering.

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”