172 Quotes by Martha N. Beck

I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you’ve always known.

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it’s the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward...

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

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

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

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.