In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes. Martha Beck More Quotes by Martha Beck More Quotes From Martha Beck True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful. Martha Beck honesty real names There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do. Martha Beck stills silence important Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough. Martha Beck inner-peace prosperity thinking The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year. Martha Beck holy-days real years No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things. Martha Beck self-esteem today giving The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are. Martha Beck differences determination heart It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God. Martha Beck serious-things and-love laughing A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s 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 Beck alive joy thinking Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace. Martha Beck fearful alternatives fighting People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back. Martha Beck loses cry people Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters. Martha Beck friends business joy 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 Beck focus understanding decision Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains Martha Beck mountain powerful moving The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. Martha Beck empowerment source process The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being. Martha Beck quality special love-is I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny. Martha Beck destiny errors believe Where your attention goes, your life goes. Martha Beck attention Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid. Martha Beck feels trying I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory. Martha Beck giving-up memories past During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow. Martha Beck world needs thinking
