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When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices. (Martha Beck Quotes)
I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail and sometimes even 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. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don’t disbelieve that you can. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. (Martha Beck Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Don’t expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it’s essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Once we’re willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was ‘safe,’ we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities. (Martha Beck Quotes)
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Creating ways to be happy is your life’s work, a challenge that won’t end until you die (Martha Beck Quotes)
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. (Martha Beck Quotes)
When making a decision, focus on what feels shackles off versus shackles on (Martha Beck Quotes)
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a ‘good woman.’ The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess. (Martha Beck Quotes)
The difference between success and failure isn’t the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart’s desires no matter how scared you are. (Martha Beck Quotes)
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. (Martha Beck Quotes)
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. (Martha Beck Quotes)
The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the ‘compassionate witness.’ Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It’s your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves. (Martha Beck Quotes)
People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it’s easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they’re not, we’re vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called ‘the chosen.’ (Martha Beck Quotes)
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they’re largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing 37 years of emotional baggage.’ (Martha Beck Quotes)
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. (Martha Beck Quotes)
What happens when we’re willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. (Martha Beck Quotes)
I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn’t drink, he wouldn’t take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete. (Martha Beck Quotes)
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you (Martha Beck Quotes)
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we’d sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster. (Martha Beck Quotes)