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What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you---yourself, in your uniqueness--to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.
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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
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If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.
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Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.
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If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
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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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No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.
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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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When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
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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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Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.
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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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When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.
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