Quotes By Martha Beck

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.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

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.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

The 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.

Every day brings new choices.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Adults under threat feel like children.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

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

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there.

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

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

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

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

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.