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.
Martha BeckHeading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before.
Martha BeckThe holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
Martha BeckI once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.
Martha BeckIt isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.
Martha Beck