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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.
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The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
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Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
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When making a decision, focus on what feels shackles off versus shackles on.
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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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Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.
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It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.
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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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Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.
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Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.
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A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.
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Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
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Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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Most people go through their whole lives, John went on, and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.
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To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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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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The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable. You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.
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