Martha Beck Quotes
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When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
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The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
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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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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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If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
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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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Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.
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The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.
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Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
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The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
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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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We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
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Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
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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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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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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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The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable. You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.
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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
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Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.
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Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.
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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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I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best lives.
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