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This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.
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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
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Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
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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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Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
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During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
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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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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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Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before.
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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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The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.
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