Martha Beck Quotes - Page 8

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• Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

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  Miracle, Events, Gallery

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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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  Ecosystems, Earth, Helping

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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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  Mean, Acceptance, Anxiety

  "Love More, Care Less: 'Detached Attachment' and Other Boundary-Setting Ideas" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.

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  Thinking, Practice, People

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• You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

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  Pain, Suffering, Valuable

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• Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

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  Priorities, Attention, Firsts

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• No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

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  Self Esteem, Loss, Arrows

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• I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

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  People, Helping, Helping People

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• There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

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  Magic In The World, Magic, World

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• If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

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  Lonely, Being Alone, Oxygen

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• Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Differences

  "Knowing your 'action' style could lead to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2008.

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• My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

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  Honesty, Self, And Love

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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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  New Year, Gratitude, What Matters

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• The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

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  Solitude, Individuality, Persons

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• If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

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  Religious, Giving, Perspective

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• I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

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  Spiritual, Believe, Know How

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• If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

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  Break Out, Helping, Solitary

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• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

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  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Decision

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

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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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  Peace, Practice, Needs

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.9, Harmony

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• The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

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  Destiny, Way, Surrender

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.93, Rodale

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• Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

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  Powerful, Lost Love, Healing

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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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  Real, Mistake, Sadness

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• Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

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  Real, Lying, Problem

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• What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

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  Sex, Laughter, Childhood

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• I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

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  Giving Up, Memories, Past

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