Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha BeckAll religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.
Martha BeckA joyful life isnโt about others; itโs about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.
Martha BeckDon't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.
Martha BeckThe part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.
Martha Beck