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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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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
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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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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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If you think there is no action that you can perform in your current circumstances that will increase the supply of love in the world, you are believing a lie. At the very least, you always have the option to offer yourself kindness and understanding. That alone can increase the supply of love in the world.
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Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.
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To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.
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Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.
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When making a decision, focus on what feels shackles off versus shackles on.
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To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in bowed down by cares. Or anxiety, as in Careful! Or investment in an outcome, as in Who cares? The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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Most people go through their whole lives, John went on, and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.
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Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
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Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
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The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.
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Where your attention goes, your life goes.
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