Don't worry about losing your way.
If you do, pain will remind you to find your path again.
Joy will let you know when you are back on it.
—Martha Beck, Leaving the Saints
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It's a common fallacy of psychotherapy to
believe that understanding the reason
for an addiction will make it go away.
Actually understanding the reason
you do it is just like saying
'Oh, there is a bullet in my abdomen
and that's why I have this pain.
' You still have to take out the bullet.
—Martha Beck, One on One with Martha Beck:
Stop Sabotaging Your Resolutions
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We believe without question almost everything we
learn as children,
stumble into the many potholes
and pitfalls that mar any human endeavor,
stagger around
blindly in pain and outrage, then slowly
remember to pay attention, to listen for the Silence,
look for the Light, feel the tenderness that
brings both vulnerability to wounds and communion
with the force that heals them.
—Martha Beck, Leaving the Saints
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Art is about telling the truth, ultimately.
If you get away from the truth to please
other people who want you to not tell the
truth, you've lost the artist in you.
—Martha Beck, One on One with Martha Beck:
Un-Blocking Your Creativity
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There are two kinds of people: people who
say they want to be creative and people w
ho get up every day and do creative work,
even if it sucks and they're not good at it.
And it's the people who get up and do it
who eventually become masters.
—Martha Beck, One on One with Martha Beck:
Un-Blocking Your Creativity
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