Quotes By Martha Beck

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

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.

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

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

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

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.