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Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
— Martha Beck
You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.
— Martha Beck
Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
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— Martha N. Beck
It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.
— Martha N. Beck
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
— Martha Beck
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
— Martha Beck
As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.
— Martha Beck
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
— Martha Beck
Not everyone is equally good-looking.
— Martha Beck
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!
— Martha Beck
Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.
— Martha Beck
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
— Martha Beck
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.
— Martha Beck
Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.
— Martha Beck
Do something today that you think is too delicious,
too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life. — Martha Beck
too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life. — Martha Beck
I only put down on paper what works for me, and since I started out as a human train wreck, the ways I've learned to be happy also work for others.
— Martha N. Beck
Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.
— Martha Beck
Adam has angels like a dog has fleas. He came here with them, and the more time you spend around him, the more likely you are to get them yourself.
— Martha N. Beck
Laughter is the highest form of prayer.
— Martha N. Beck
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
— Martha Beck
Good fortune has side effects.
— Martha Beck
The way that other people judge me is none of my business.
— Martha N. Beck
Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.
— Martha Beck
Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.
— Martha Beck
Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
— Martha Beck
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
— Martha Beck
Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.
— Martha Beck
Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
— Martha Beck
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
— Martha Beck
Don't worry that you've wasted time. Each moment
no matter how frozen or confused
was a useful and necessary lesson. — Martha Beck
no matter how frozen or confused
was a useful and necessary lesson. — Martha Beck
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
— Martha Beck
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
— Martha Beck
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
— Martha N. Beck
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.
— Martha Beck
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.
— Martha Beck
During the times we think we're being "unproductive," the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
— Martha Beck
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
— Martha Beck
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
— Martha Beck
I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.
— Martha N. Beck
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
— Martha Beck
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
— Martha Beck
What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.
— Martha Beck
Does this feel warmer or colder?
— Martha Beck
people with weight issues often feel judged and attacked, partly because they spend so much time judging and attacking themselves.
— Martha N. Beck
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward ...
— Martha Beck
You're blocking.
— Martha N. Beck
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
— Martha Beck
A rule for success in today's wild new economic world is this: use the most innovative technologies to deliver the most primal products and services.
— Martha N. Beck
Adults under threat feel like children.
— Martha Beck
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
— Martha Beck
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.
— Martha Beck
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.
— Martha Beck
True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you're already learning how to make it less harmful.
— Martha Beck
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.
— Martha Beck
I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
— Martha Beck
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
— Martha Beck
Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.
— Martha Beck
A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.
— Martha Beck
The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language ...
— Martha N. Beck
You can't stay well without telling
and living
the truth. — Martha Beck
and living
the truth. — Martha Beck
Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.
— Martha Beck
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.
— Martha Beck
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.
— Martha Beck
To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.
— Martha Beck
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.
— Martha Beck
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
— Martha Beck
Remember that it's okay to ask for help when you're stumped, because sometimes you really can't be expected to handle everything alone.
— Martha Beck
Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.
— Martha Beck
Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.
— Martha Beck
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
— Martha Beck