Martha Beck Quotes

Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

All 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.

From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.

Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

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.

Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you---yourself, in your uniqueness--to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.

Dawn Kotzer is the kind of coach who can see beauty and wisdom in circumstances that seem ugly and chaotic. She's kind, genuine and honest, willing and able to see where her clients get stuck and gently help them recover their freedom. Better than a coach who gives you the answers, Dawn will help you find the answers to your life's dilemmas that are already within you.

Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Does this feel warmer or colder?