To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
Martha BeckIf we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.
Martha BeckRest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
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