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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.
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Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
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Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
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The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.
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If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
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If you think there is no action that you can perform in your current circumstances that will increase the supply of love in the world, you are believing a lie. At the very least, you always have the option to offer yourself kindness and understanding. That alone can increase the supply of love in the world.
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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
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The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .
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What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you---yourself, in your uniqueness--to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.
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Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.
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Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life it is the pathway to it.
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Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.
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