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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.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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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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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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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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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
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Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas you may think are unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith.
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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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Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming at a child, “Do something, dammit!” You’ll either freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear widens the knowing-doing gap. Don’t use it.
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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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Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
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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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The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.
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Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
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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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Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.
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Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.
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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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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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If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
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