Martha Beck Quotes - Page 8

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

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  Inspirational, Practice, Calm

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• Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

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  Thinking, Inner Peace, Prosperity

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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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• The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

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  Expectations, Asia, Results

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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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  Joyful, Whole, Activity

  "Oprah’s Life Coach on Achieving Your Goals" by Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2011.

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• You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.

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  Realizing

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• It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

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  Laughing, And Love, Serious Things

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• The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

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  Real, Holy Days, Years

  "How To De-Stress This Holiday Season" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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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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• 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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  Levels, Want, Honest

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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.

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  World, Way, Path

  Martha Beck (2011). “Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

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  Silence, Important, Stills

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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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• Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

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  Friends, Business, Joy

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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

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  Sex, Laughter, Childhood

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