Martha Beck Quotes - Page 9

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• The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

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  Moments, Capacity, Obligation

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• Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before.

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  Home, Heart, World

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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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  Mean, People, Giving

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• Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renée Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

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  Encouragement, Worry, Needs

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

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• Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming
  at a child, “Do something, dammit!” You’ll either
  freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear
  widens the knowing-doing gap. Don’t use it.

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  Children, Knowing, Trying

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• To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

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  Inspirational, Tired, Important

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• It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

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  Purpose, Starting, Places Of Peace

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• Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

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  Skills, Grace, Dull

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• Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
  things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

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  Fall, Simple, Criticism

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• I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.

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  Children, Writing, Phones

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• Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

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  Communication, Dark, Bridges

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• Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

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  Fall, Choices, Losing

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• Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

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  People, Essentials, Different

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• No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

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  Self Esteem, Giving, Today

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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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• The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

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  Hurt, Heart, Desire

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• In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

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  Average, Years, Brain

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• If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.

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  Stress, Humanity, Energy

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• Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.

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  Mean, Healing, Body

  Martha Beck (2011). “Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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  Philosophy, Chinese, Asian

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• Make a plan to change the world. For
  one night, don't disbelieve that you can.

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  Night, World, Plans

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• From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.

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  Commitment, Acceptance, Eating

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• As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

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  Thinking, Deep Water, Truth Is

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• Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

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  Wise, Eye, Mind

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