Tara Brach Suffering Quotations

The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.