“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new… — Martha Beck Better way Copy Share Image
Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any… — Martha Beck Depression Copy Share Image
We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something… — Martha Beck Fear Copy Share Image
It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe… — Martha Beck Angel Copy Share Image
You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Biology Copy Share Image
Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to… — Martha Beck Blind Copy Share Image
Dawn Kotzer is the kind of coach who can see beauty and wisdom in circumstances that seem ugly and chaotic. She's kind,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized… — Martha Beck Behavior Copy Share Image
If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas… — Martha Beck Abundance Copy Share Image
Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and… — Martha Beck Connections Copy Share Image
I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you… — Martha Beck Fear Copy Share Image
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck Children Copy Share Image
Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your… — Martha Beck Aerobic Copy Share Image
Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his… — Martha Beck Ability Copy Share Image
A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom… — Martha Beck Confession Copy Share Image
Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy? — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good… — Martha Beck Dichotomy Copy Share Image
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. — Martha Beck Angel Copy Share Image
A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming at a child, “Do something, dammit!” You’ll either freeze up or act in… — Martha Beck Children Copy Share Image
There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing… — Martha Beck Differences Copy Share Image
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own… — Martha Beck Ability Copy Share Image
To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your… — Martha Beck Battle Copy Share Image
Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and… — Martha Beck Memory Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
