Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence

In this talk, we'll explore the deep evolutionary and spiritual currents that shape our lives—the pull of fear and separation, and the quiet, persistent call toward love, compassion, and belonging. Drawing on stories, reflections, and contemplative practices, this talk invites us to remember that caring is our true nature, even when it feels distant or obscured. Through mindful awareness and heart-centered practices, we begin to sense how our awakened heart calls us—through both the pain of disconnection and the longing for love. As we learn to turn toward our inner experience with kindness, we naturally widen our circles of compassion and deepen our capacity to meet others with presence and care. In this talk, Tara explores: ✨ How compassion is the foundation of human connection and collective healing ✨ The two forces within us: fear-based reactivity and the call of the awakened heart ✨ Why "caring about caring" is itself a doorway to love and transformation ✨ Practices for turning toward vulnerability and deepening empathy (including Tonglen) ✨ How widening our circles of compassion can help heal both personal and global suffering Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence is an episode from Tara Brach by Tara Brach.

This episode is 56:09 long.

This episode was published on Apr 3, 2026.

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