Radical Compassion Quotes

“When we trust that we are the ocean, we are not afraid of the waves.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

“The deepest transformations in our lives come down to something very simple: We learn to respond, not react, to what is going on inside us.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

“Wisdom tells me I’m nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. • VIRONIKA TUGALEVA”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“The only path that can carry me home is the path of self-compassion.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“In contrast, trance encloses us in a virtual reality of thoughts and emotionally charged stories. We’re trying to solve problems, satisfy desires, get rid of discomfort, or make our way to a future when things might be better. We are at the mercy of unconscious beliefs, feelings, and memories that drive our decisions and reactions to life. Not only that, but our unconscious wants and fears shape our deepest sense of who we are. When we’re in trance, we usually feel separate or alone, threatened, and/or incomplete.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“The more you Nurture yourself, the more you’ll find you’re living from your future self—the best of who you are.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“Our issues are in our tissues.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“The global expressions of suffering—violence, the oppression of nondominant populations, the unsustainable and addictive consuming that threatens this earth—all arise out of fear and are rooted in feelings of separation and otherness. Radical compassion expresses the truth of our interdependence and mutual belonging. Living true to ourselves becomes, in its fullness, living true to our collective path of healing and freedom, our shared yearning for a peaceful, loving world.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“Between the stimulus and the response there is a space, and in that space is your power and your freedom. • VIKTOR FRANKL”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“Our self-identity is reinforced by what others believe about us, and we collude by staying the same. We’d rather protect the current relationship than risk rocking the boat.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. • HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain

“Our daily trance can feel ordinary and familiar,”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain