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Martha Beck, born on November 29, 1962, is an American author whose works cover a range of topics including personal growth, career development, and life philosophy. Known for her unique perspective and insightful writing style, Beck has helped countless readers find direction and balance in their complex lives.

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“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”

Knows Believe Spiritual Know How Don't Believe Spiritual Beings

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“It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Should Looks Feelings Choices Process Ideals Realization Feel Better Making Choices Platonic Ideal Life

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“Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.”

Knows Feels Should Firsts Attention Priorities Stillness

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“The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.”

Knows Moments Home Speak Waiting Consciousness Illusion Down And Slow Down Impossibility Improbable Waiting For You Powerlessness Illusion Of Time

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“Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.”

Knows Mean Materials Brave Be Brave Raw Materials

Book:Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

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

Ifs Knows Pain Suffering Know How Valuable Cease

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“The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable. You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.”

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Book:Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

Source: Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.”

People Knows Want Effort

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“To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.”

Knows Self Social Pressure True Self True Nature Social Pressure

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“As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.”

Thinking Knows Water Truth Is You Think You Know Deep Water

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Might Jobs Evidence Scientist Nuts Bias

Author:Martha Beck