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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
~ Martha Beck
Accuracy
Blind
Dead
Each
Lets
Love
Love Is
Only
Other
Said
See
The Only Thing
Thing
Us
Whoever
Wrong
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A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.
~ Martha Beck
Carries
Dominating
Dysfunction
Go
Group
Individual
Issue
Other
Our
Patient
Performs
Same
Service
Troubles
Unnoticed
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All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.
~ Martha Beck
Active
Based
Brains
Call
Constantly
Core
Distress
Doing
Good
Hygiene
Mental
Most
Nothing
Often
Our
Ourselves
Practice
Should
Staring
Telling
Think
Thinking
Time
Us
Wall
Wasting
Wasting Time
While
Working
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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.
~ Martha Beck
Attach
Attached
Become
Controlling
Emphasize
Fanatical
Finding
Follow
Followers
Form
Get
His
Instead
Jesus
Leader
Leaders
Outward
Own
People
Place
Purpose
Religious
Religious Leaders
Spiritual
Teachers
Tell
Tried
True
Us
Who
Why
Within
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Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
~ Martha Beck
Anger
Fear
How
Matter
May
Meaning
Well
Well-Meaning
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
~ Martha Beck
Always
Anxiety
Anything
Associated
Focused
Future
Makes
Moment
Present
Present Moment
Some
Somewhat
Sort
Trying
Uncomfortable
Will
You
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As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.
~ Martha Beck
Attitude
Better
Clothes
Coach
Feel
Highlights
I Love
Life
Love
Makes
New
New Clothes
Only
Right
Surgery
You
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As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.
~ Martha Beck
About
Ancient
Between
Creating
Culture
Defense
Down
Feel
Heat
Here
I Feel
Just
Light
Lighting
Like
More
Neither
Nor
Obsess
Only
Our
Personal
Pleasurable
Problems
Quicksand
Self-Pity
Sinking
Tales
Than
Toes
Torch
Tragedy
Whole
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As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.
~ Martha Beck
Better
Deep
Else
Know
Someone
Soon
Than
Think
Truth
Water
You
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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.
~ Martha Beck
Around
Beauty
Cannot
Events
Experiences
Explain
Gallery
Miracles
Present
Remembered
Turned
Wander
Where
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Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.
~ Martha Beck
After
Another
Arts
Beer
Cheerfully
Compassion
Crazy
Disaster
Evening
Everyone
Failure
Failures
Had
Humility
Karate
Learned
Loved
Martial
Martial Arts
Mind
Off
Our
Sit
Stories
Strange
Students
Tales
Tradition
Turns
Up
While
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Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities.
~ Martha Beck
Ability
Choices
Comparing
Contrasting
English
Exams
High
High School
Human
Invaluable
Just
Making
Our
Priorities
School
Setting
Skill
Things
Valuable
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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
~ Martha Beck
Be Happy
Challenge
Creating
Die
End
Happy
Life
Until
Ways
Work
You
Your
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
~ Martha Beck
Absolutely
Any
Because
Blindly
Built
Denial
Equipped
Exists
Human
Infants
Older
Past
Person
Though
Trust
Who
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Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.
~ Martha Beck
Best
Else
Even
Make
One Thing
Pathetic
Something
Something Else
Thing
World
Worst
Wrestlers
You
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Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.
~ Martha Beck
Belief
Chose
Every
Me
Seemed
Toward
Worldview
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Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people keep paying me to say this - if something feels really good for you, you might want to do it. And if it feels really horrible, you might want to consider not doing it. Thank you, give me my $150.
~ Martha Beck
Believe
Boils
Cannot
Consider
Doing
Down
Ever
Everything
Feels
Give
Give Me
Good
Horrible
Keep
Me
Might
Paying
People
Really
Say
Self-Help
Something
Taught
Terms
Thank
Thank You
Want
You
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Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.
~ Martha Beck
Ancient
Being
DNA
Every
Expectation
Fighting
Genetic
Get
Hopes
Loved
Loved One
Programming
Sentient
Tell
Up
You
Your
Yourself
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Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
~ Martha Beck
About
Badly
Built
Degree
Doing
Down
Fact
Fail
Failure
Learn
Mistakes
People
Quitting
Relaxed
Show
Shut
Skiing
Smoking
Soon
Studies
Succeed
Success
Success Is
Those
Try
Well
Who
Worry
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Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
~ Martha Beck
Disturbing
Focusing
Greater
Issue
Mind
Much
Packages
Relatively
Stuff
Terrors
Tidy
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