You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.
Martha BeckIf you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Martha BeckNo matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha BeckIf you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
Martha BeckYou are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.
Martha Beck