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Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
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Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.
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Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.
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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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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 past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.
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Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.
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When making a decision, focus on what feels shackles off versus shackles on.
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Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.
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This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.
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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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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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If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
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Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.
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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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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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I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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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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As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.
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