In Radical Acceptance Tara Brach tells of her personal experience with overwhelming, passionate longing. She describes a week-long meditative retreat after her divorce, when she fell into a "Vipassana Romance" full of fantasies about a potential relationship with a person whom she had only recently met. After struggling with intense wanting for days she told her teacher, who simply asked, "How are you relating to the presence of desire?" Brach then realized the essence of mindfulness practice:

_{(from the chapter "Radical Acceptance of Desire: Awakening to the Source of Longing"; also quoted in Tara Brach's 2012 online essay "Radical Acceptance of Desire" ...) - ^z - 2015-06-25}