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Milarepa realized that the only thing he could do was have the courage to deepen his surrender.

Trusting the Gold

Tara Brach and Vicky Alvarez

April 30 is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, celebrated annually to raise awareness for the millions of animals waiting in shelters to find their fur-ever homes. The day aims to encourage people to adopt.

From Dogs to Rabbits, NPR Readers Share How Adopting Shelter Pets Impacted Them

Brittney Melton

I have found that it is only when I stop resisting entirely—stop judging, stop trying to control, stop tensing against, stop avoiding—only then do I arrive in an open, tender, and healing presence. In that open tenderness, there’s nowhere for the painful shadow energies to root. With true surrender of all strategies of self-protection, the demons lose their power. When the resistance is gone, so are the demons.

Trusting the Gold

Tara Brach and Vicky Alvarez

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