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

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.
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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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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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Good fortune has side effects.
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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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You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.
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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
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You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
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Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life it is the pathway to it.
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Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
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If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.
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Most people go through their whole lives, John went on, and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.
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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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If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you
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The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.
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A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.
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The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .
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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.
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Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.
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