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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
Provo
Utah
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
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The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.
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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
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If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.
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Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.
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When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
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I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving this moment is okay.
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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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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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You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
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If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you
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You will never realize your best destiny through the avoidance of fear. Rather, you will realize it through the exercise of courage, which means taking whatever action is most liberating to the soul, even when you are afraid.
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Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.
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You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
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Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.
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If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
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