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Where your attention goes, your life goes.

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
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Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.
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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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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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Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
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All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.
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In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
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Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.
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If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.
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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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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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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
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To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.
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The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .
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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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Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before.
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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
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There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing physics or making a quilt, you must display your differences to make a difference.
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In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
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Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.
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