Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

by Tara Brach

We don’t have to wait until we are on our deathbed to realize what a waste of our precious lives it is to carry the belief that something is wrong with us.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is.

“I’m skimming over life and racing to the finish line—death.”

Those who feel plagued by not being good enough are often drawn to idealistic worldviews that offer the possibility of purifying and transcending a flawed nature.

I am larger and better than I thought. I did not think I held so much goodness. Walt Whitman

But often enough our resentment of others reflects our resentment of ourselves.