By Martha Beck — 2020
You’re certain you know what your problem is. Fabulous, says Martha Beck—unless it’s distracting you from an even more alarming issue. O’s life coach goes deep.
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CLEAR ALL
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
Hate destroys the hater.
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
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One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.