Top 56 Martha N. Beck Quotes
#1. The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.
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#2. You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.
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#3. It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.
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#4. Think through the well-meaning motivations of both your Dictator and your Wild Child, until you really understand that within their limited perspectives they're doing their very best. Then offer them both kindness.
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#5. we don't just react to the world as it is. We react to the world as we think it is - the
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#7. We also believe thoughts like "I'm hungry" or "I need pie" even when they aren't true. We react to these inaccurate statements as though they were scientific fact. As
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#8. people with weight issues often feel judged and attacked, partly because they spend so much time judging and attacking themselves.
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#9. it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our minds for The Truth.
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#11. You are consciousness dressed in form, my love. Consciousness is divine. Matter is divine. Creation is divine. Everything is divine. Are you somehow the only exception?
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#12. Research has shown that focusing on appreciation and gratitude has all kinds of positive health effects, lowering indicators of disease-causing stress and increasing the flow of healthy hormones in our bloodstreams.
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#13. There's more God in one hurt child than in all the religions humans ever created.
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#15. 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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#16. It comes from looking at the heart of things, from stopping to smell not only the roses but the bushes as well. It is a quality of attention to ordinary life that is so loving and intimate it is almost worship.
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#17. If nothing's working for you, if you feel as though you're pushing forward against the grain, the most productive and proactive thing you can do is nothing. Nature is turning you inward, to gain power through peace, rather than outward to gain power through activity.
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#18. If two people agree on everything, one of them is superfluous.
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#19. Every experience that's part of your best destiny is beautiful to your soul.
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#20. Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.
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#21. Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into the world that is beyond words and can therefore contain paradox without contradiction.
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#22. He is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.
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#23. 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.
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#24. If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has
already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can
become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes
you cannot now imagine.
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#25. hold out your right hand, palm up. Imagine a 2-inch-tall version of yourself in a military uniform, with a whip in one hand and a gun in the other, stomping around in your palm, shrieking deeply personal insults and commanding you to lose weight. This is the Dictator.
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#27. 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.
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#28. We divide the roles of mystic, doctor, therapist, artist, herbalist, naturalist, and storyteller into separate, often inimical professions. In most other societies, there was one word, one job assignment, for somebody who was all these things at once.
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#29. Career miracles happen when you're so in love with your life that pushing yourself is actually easier than stopping, when you "do without doing." Joyful activity adds real value to the world, and adding value is the heart and soul of a successful career.
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#30. 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.
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#31. The way that other people judge me is none of my business.
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#32. Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.
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#33. Finally, Karen Gerdes is the gentle force that put me back together after the events of my life tore me apart, and the one that has kept me whole. Whenever I slip back into the world of shadows, she is the one who leads me back into the light.
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#34. They decided to allow their baby to be born. What they did not realize is that they themselves were the ones who would be 'born,' infants in a new world where magic is commonplace, Harvard professors are the slow learners, and retarded babies are the master teachers.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.
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#39. Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless - allows us to seek happiness in the only place it can be found: our real, messy, imperfect experience.
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#40. This is important stuff, so it's crucial not to get too serious, to realize that this is all fun and games. The attitude 'business is serious, it's not fun and games' leads to financial failure, and I won't tolerate it in my company.
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#42. I remember reading about an NFL receiver who studies yoga so that his limber limbs won't be surprised when they're slammed into strange positions as he plays his full-contact sport. Well, in case you haven't noticed, life is a full-contact sport, at least for the soul.
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#43. In this chapter, we'll picture these rule-making and rule-breaking parts of you as humans. Tiny humans. We'll call them the Dictator and the Wild Child.
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#44. Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
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#45. They needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.
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#46. The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language ...
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#47. If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
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#48. We are supported by a universe that has no interest in hurting us, only in teaching us to dance
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#49. The urge to find the real facts is destructive only to people or systems (friendships, family dynamics, political dynasties) that are based on lies. The truth can scare you half to death, but it's never as destructive as deception.
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#50. Emotions are virtually always responses to thoughts. That's great news, because while it's impossible to control an emotion once a thought has triggered it, we can change our thoughts deliberately. We do this not by contradicting them, but by questioning them. EXPLANATION:
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#51. It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.
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#52. Albert Camus wrote, In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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#53. Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. We all have our little sorrows ... and the littler you are, the larger the sorrow.
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