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" This audio book was recommended to me by a friend and I really enjoyed listening to it. It gave me a lot of helpful advice for myself. It had wonderful examples to relate to. "
- Dar, 4/15/2016
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" This book is an excellent guide to using meditation to deal with the emotional challenges in daily life. Many students have reported to me that this book has help them psychologically and emotionally to deal with some issue in their life. "
- Phillip, 2/20/2014
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" Full marks for the gist and low marks for the execution. A little too self-helpy and over-written, yet the idea of bringing radical acceptance/compassion to ourselves and others is pretty much the only hope for emotional sanity in this world. But for content, economy, and grace, I'm finding Ezra Bayda's "Being Zen" to be a huge improvement. Let's just say Bayda's book is going on my shelves when I'm done. Brach's book is going to half.com. "
- Kathryn, 2/18/2014
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" good meditation exercises. compassionate writing. "
- Stacey, 2/18/2014
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" Kripalu Yoga is primarily a practice of compassion, and this book is it's perfect companion. The foundation of all yoga practice is acceptance, and it begins with ourselves. Feelings of deficiency are common to all of us. Being criticized, making mistakes, and experiencing relationship difficulties, all can make us feel unworthy. Our human suffering and our loneliness keep us from feeling fulfilled. Recognizing how we become trapped by these feelings is the first step in reconnecting with who we really are: perfect beings. Through personal stories, case histories and guided meditations, Ms Brach brings her teachings alive, showing her readers how to transcend their day-to-day existence to arrive at a sense of clearsightedness and acceptance of who they are in every moment of their lives. Based in Buddhist teachings, we awaken to our experience exactly as it is, and find the joy that is our birthright. This is a book to savor and reread again and again, a place of refuge in a chaotic and jarring world. "
- Martha, 2/9/2014
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" Would recommend this book for many people. This is not a "feel good" book, though sometimes you may glean those feelings. This is an eye-opening work- to accept all that is. "
- Kaylynn, 2/8/2014
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" This book contains wonderful guided meditations. The author writes from a Buddhist perspective but her hopeful, compassionate words are meaningful for people of all different spiritual backgrounds...at least for me! "
- Samantha, 1/27/2014
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" amazing...this book brings me great relief from my constant grasping towards being good, seeing clearly that this grasping to be good was a cover for all the other graspings, each layer of feeling covered over with more craving or resistance and self-judging thoughts about not being good enough now i know it'a all good. or rather, that in acceptance of all that arises in each moment we find freedom, in embracing even the grasping, going fully into the longing and pain behind these desires and discomfort we can actually meet those unmet needs in our on wholeness that arises through complete presence and acceptance. a book that is very in the world, true to real life, giving a practical map for how Buddhism can be practiced in the everyday. also in the spirit of nonviolent communication--the vipassana-centered meditations really help with the process of self-connection and self-empathy upon which NVC is based. so thankful for this work. many concepts and ideas that were only theoretical or didn't seem to fit to my life are just clicking together in so many ways with this book and her case studies and own personal sharing. "
- Vanessa, 1/27/2014
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" When I first tried to read this book, it did not touch me and I was highly critical of it - even though I did not finish it. I am now coming back to it after many years and I find it is breaking my heart open in many ways. I am recognizing that my resistance has probably been about needing this work very much. This time, I plan to get all the way through! "
- Jennifer, 1/24/2014
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" The best self-help book I've ever read. "
- Carly, 1/19/2014
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" life changing event. recommend this highly. "
- Lainie, 1/6/2014
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" so far have read that Tara Brach has wrestled with a smililar inner-message as I have: What is "wrong" with me? I have just started reading this book, but am gaining strength from what she explains and the meditations she suggests. "
- Suzie, 12/18/2013
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" Step one: accept that you're reading a self-help book. "
- Kelly, 12/13/2013
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" One of my favorite spiritual reads! "
- Mary, 11/30/2013
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" I love this book, I just keep reading it and using it daily. "
- Deborah, 11/19/2013
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" This is not one of those books for which you can really write a review. If you are open to its message, it will change your life. It certainly did mine. "
- Tabitha, 8/26/2013
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" Tara Brach is one of my all time favorites. I listen to her podcast almost every morning while walking. "
- Diane, 7/10/2013
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" Something i needed to hear at the time , but don't remember staying totally interested, always wonder if you should go back and look at these things and see how you have changed... "
- Peggy, 5/24/2013
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" LOVED it. Use the Sacred Pause all the time. "
- Lisa, 5/4/2013
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" I rarely read a book more than once, but have now read this one three times. Each reading reveals more truth and depth, and I am sure I will read it again! "
- Bishop, 1/20/2013
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" this is working on my brain like a worm. a good worm. "
- Emily, 11/15/2012
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" TB heart teacher for life, if I am lucky enough to keep her here. "
- Kimmy, 9/27/2012
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" This book changed my life completely. "
- Catherine, 8/29/2012
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" This book helped me through a difficult time. It has given me a fresh outlook on life with powerful tools to help live life with acceptance and gratitude. "
- Helen, 8/20/2012
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" i'm still reading this, but i'm surprised so many people like this book. sometimes it feels preachy. other times she seems off her rocker. "
- Jamie, 4/29/2012
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" This was a recommendation from - of all people - one of the inmates' sisters. She sent him excerpts from this book (because she can't send the whole thing) and he found them comforting and enlightening. "
- Laura, 4/21/2012
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" Amazing, amazing book. Read it! I recommend reading a bit each evening before going to sleep. "
- Haley, 3/7/2012
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" Blends Buddhist philosophy and practices with psychology. "
- Tim, 2/22/2012
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" It seems to me Western forms of psychotherapy provide many things, not however, results. Not neo-freudian Alice Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self), not Gestalt, not EMDR, not Transactional, not Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. "
- Austin, 1/15/2012
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