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Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.
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The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.
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Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.
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From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.
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Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.
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When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
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Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.
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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 more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .
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If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
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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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Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
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Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.
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