Martha Beck
Martha Beck
Martha Nibley Beckis an American sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve personal and professional goals. She holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies and master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology, both from Harvard University. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS Church scholar and apologist, Hugh Nibley. She received national attention after publication in 2005 of her best-seller, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth29 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
If you ask people (as I often do) how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.
Does this feel warmer or colder?
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.