Martha Beck Quotes

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• Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

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  Looks, Attention, Ends

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• If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.

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  Powerful, Moving, Small Changes

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• Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

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  Inspirational, Pain, Kindness

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• Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

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  Fun, Successful, Pathways

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• Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

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  Mean, Worry, Why Not

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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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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• When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

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  Scare, Loses

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• If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

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  Memories, Caring, Touching

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

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  Love You, People, World

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• The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

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  Heart, Soul, Peaceful

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• Do something today that you think is too delicious,
  too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

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  Selfish, Thinking, Today

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• It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

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  Feel Better, Thinking, Choices

  "How to escape your rat race" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2009.

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• Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

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  Inspirational, Past, Expectations

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• Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

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  Real, Feelings, Real Power

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• Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

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  People, Matter, Imagine

  "10 life lessons you should unlearn" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

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  Hope, Lonely, Believe

  "Secret to finding unexpected miracles" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2010.

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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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  Thinking, Purpose, Guarantees

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.53, Rodale

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• Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.

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  Doubt, No Fear, Breathe

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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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  Essence, Needs, Matter

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• When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.

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  Running, Feelings

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• Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Giving

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• External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

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  Feelings, States, Circumstances

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.6, Rodale

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• Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

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  Compassion, People, Unhappy

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• The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

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  Safety, Way

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• Where your attention goes, your life goes.

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  Attention

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