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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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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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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.
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If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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Every day brings new choices.
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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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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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Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.
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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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If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
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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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Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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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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A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.
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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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The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.
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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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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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