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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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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
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All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.
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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
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Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.
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Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.
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Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.
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I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
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If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.
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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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To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in bowed down by cares. Or anxiety, as in Careful! Or investment in an outcome, as in Who cares? The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.
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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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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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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
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Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
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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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Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.
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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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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 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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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
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