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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your life with the Heart of a Buddha
Tara Brach (2003)
"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and
tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this
illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments
and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism,
in loneliness and overwork--all the forces that keep our lives
constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to
freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over
Dr. Brach’s twenty years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students.
Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her
teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh
interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by
step, she leads us to trust our innate goodness, showing how we can
develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion that is the
essence of Radical Acceptance. Radical Acceptance does not mean
self-indulgence or passivity. Instead it empowers genuine change:
healing fear and shame and helping to build loving, authentic
relationships. When we stop being at war with ourselves, we are free
to live fully every precious moment of our lives.
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