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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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When making a decision, focus on what feels shackles off versus shackles on.
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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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Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can.
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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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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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The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.
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Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
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Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.
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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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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
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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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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
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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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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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Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.
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Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.
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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
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Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.
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