Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
Martha BeckIf you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.
Martha BeckDo whatever work feeds your true self, even if itโs not a safe bet, even if itโs like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you youโre wrong or bad or crazy.
Martha BeckThe position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
Martha BeckWhen fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
Martha Beck