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Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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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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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
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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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Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.
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What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you---yourself, in your uniqueness--to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.
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Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
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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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You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
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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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Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life it is the pathway to it.
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A joyful life isn’t about others it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.
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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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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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Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
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External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
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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 way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
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