Martha Beck

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

— Martha Beck

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

— Martha Beck

Every day brings new choices.

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Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.

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Not everyone is equally good-looking.

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Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

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The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

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

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Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can.

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It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and…

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Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.

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“This is their journey. I’ll have my time to go through xyz, but now is not my time. Everyone gets their time.”

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Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

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Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

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Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about…

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The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to…

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Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into…

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If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

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When I tell a woman you really need to quit your soul-sucking job, she goes home, and she can tell her husband,…

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If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor…

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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…

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If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of…

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If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife…

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I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight,…

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Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your…

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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…

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Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or…

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If you think there is no action that you can perform in your current circumstances that will increase the supply of love…

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Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that…

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Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed…

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The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of…

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I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what…

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Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it…

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“Cruelty, whether physical or emotional, isn't normal. It may signal what psychologists call the dark triad of psychopathic, narcissistic and Machiavellian personality…

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“And thus I learned that at Harvard, while knowing a great deal is the norm and knowing everything is the goal, appearing…

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“Occasionally, especially at celebratory times, the whole gang of us would launch into a spontaneous mental game. For example, my mother used…

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“I also thought about that seminar classmate on Adam's ninth birthday. Adam had insisted on going to a pizza-and-games arcade for his…

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Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind…

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