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

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.
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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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External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
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Every day brings new choices.
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Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
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The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.
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The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
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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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Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
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Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.
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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 a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.
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Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
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In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.
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Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.
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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 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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