“Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance.” - Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance

“Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.” - Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance

“I found myself praying: “May I love and accept myself just as I am.” - Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance

“We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.” - Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance

“When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, “Darling, I care about your suffering,” a deep healing begins.” - Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance

“We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.” - Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance

We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/ mind we call self -- becauses all things come and go. - Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance

“We can’t hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go.” - Tara Brach, "Radical Acceptance"

The power of mindfulness is the power to examine those self-identification and their consequences and the power to examine the views and perspectives we adopt so reflexively and automatically and then proceed to think are us. - Jon Kabat- Zinn

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. - Echkhart Tolle

Let silence take you to the core of life. - Rumi