Top 180 Martha N. Beck Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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 N. Beck

102. “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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103. “Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.”

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104. “There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.”

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105. “People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to KNOW what they want.”

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106. “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.”

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107. “Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “I’m not saying we have power over everything in our lives – if that were true, my hair would look so, so different – but I am saying that there’s no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.”

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110. “My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.”

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111. “Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs.”

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112. “When you’re weary, find relief. When you’re strong, find delight.”

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113. “Don’t fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.”

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114. “The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.”

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115. “If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.”

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116. “My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people’s hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!”

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117. “Good fortune has side effects.”

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118. “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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119. “Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.”

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120. “Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.”

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121. “When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who’s so afraid you’re going to be a bag lady.”

— Martha N. Beck

122. “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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123. “Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.”

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124. “Most people think that once they’ve found their purpose and the power to practice it, they’ll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it’s only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.”

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125. “Does this feel warmer or colder?”

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126. “Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.”

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127. “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.”

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128. “Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don’t go there.”

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129. “Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.”

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130. “Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.”

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131. “Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.”

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132. “As soon as you think you know someone else’s truth better than they do, you are in deep water.”

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133. “In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can’t.”

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134. “As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.”

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135. “The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .”

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136. “If you’re religious, it gives you a perspective.”

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137. “If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.”

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138. “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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139. “If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.”

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140. “Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.”

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141. “Adults under threat feel like children.”

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142. “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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143. “Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.”

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144. “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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145. “I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.”

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146. “The only way to get out of this suicidal pattern is to leave the battlefield by going to the Watcher’s place of peace. EXERCISE:.”

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147. “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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148. “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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149. “Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.”

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150. “To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.”

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