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No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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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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To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.
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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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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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Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.
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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 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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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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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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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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The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.
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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.
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As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.
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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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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
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