American - Author | November 29, 1962 -
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
Martha Beck
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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.
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Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.
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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.
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Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.
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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.
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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
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