Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems. Martha Beck
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school. Martha Beck
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. Martha Beck
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. Martha Beck
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. Martha Beck
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. Martha Beck
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. Martha Beck
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
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. Martha Beck
Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length. Martha Beck
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. Martha Beck