Martha Beck quotes - page 3

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. (Martha Beck)
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature. View quote
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. View quote
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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. View quote
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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. View quote
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes. View quote
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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you. View quote
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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. View quote
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you. View quote
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Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. View quote
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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot. (Martha Beck)
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise. View quote
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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. View quote
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All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being. View quote
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All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress. (Martha Beck)
As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude. View quote
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A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed. View quote
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Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them. View quote
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. View quote
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