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Radical Acceptance

Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    23 November 2004

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Summary

“For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much—just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first step toward reconnecting with who we really are and what it means to live fully.”

“Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and te…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780553380996
ISBN-10:0553380990
Author:Tara Brach
Publisher:Bantam
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:23 November 2004
Weight:306g
Dimensions:20mm x 137mm x 208mm
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Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach - ISBN: 9780553380996
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Critics Review

“An important, fresh voice from the ranks of modern dharma teacher-writers.”—Yoga Journal

“A consoling and practical guide that can help people find a light within themselves.”—Publishers Weekly

“A clear, practical and caring guide.”—Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience and Lovingkindness

“Tara Brach, perhaps more than any other spiritual teacher of our time, deeply understands self-compassion: both why we need it and how to cultivate it. This classic is a must-read for anyone wanting to develop a healthier and more loving relationship with themselves.”—Kristin Neff, Ph.D., author of Fierce Self-Compassion

“Radical Acceptance continues to be the wisdom for so many of us to tend to our fear of a rapidly changing world as well as offering us real tools to help build a new world grounded in fierce love and care for our communities.”—Lama Rod Owens, author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

“An invitation to heal our pain by accepting our heart.”—Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessing

“Through her deep experience as a therapist, buddhist meditation teacher, yogi, and mother, Tara Brach shines light upon the vital subject of learning to realise inner completeness, wholeness, and healing.”—Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within

“An insightful, warmhearted, and important contribution.”—Tara Bennett-Goleman, author of Emotional Alchemy

“Overflows with wonderful characters whose struggles we recognize as our own… Tara Brach skillfully weaves together some of the most important new insights in contemporary psychotherapy with one of the central psychological insights of the Buddha: There is no part of ourselves we need to exile from our awareness and our love. Radical Acceptance is a book, and a practice, that we all need.”—Stephen Cope, author of The Great Work of Your Life

“Radical Acceptance offers gentle wisdom and tender healing, a most excellent medicine for our unworthiness and longing. Breathe, soften, and let these compassionate teachings bless your heart.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

About The Author

Tara Brach

Tara Brach, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist as well as a Buddhist lay priest and popular teacher of mindfulness (vipassana) meditation. She is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community in Washington, D.C., and has conducted workshops at Spirit Rock Center, Omega Institute, the New York Open Center, and other retreat centers nationwide. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her teenaged son.

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