The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
Martha Beck
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What upsets people is not what happens to them, but their thoughts about what happens.”
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.”
“The extent to which people will defy nature to serve culture can be truly horrifying.”
“The Indian sage Nisargadatta Maharaj once commented, “The only true statement the mind can make is ‘I do not know.”
“And, above all, please learn to trust your inner teacher, the burst of relaxation and freedom that rings through your whole body.”
“we tend to measure our own well-being not by how we feel, but by how our lives compare to other people’s.”
“To be in integrity is to be one thing, whole and undivided.”
“This was how I discovered the most powerful way I know to kill our own cowardice as we approach a gate to hell. We must pull our minds away from situations that exist only in our hopes and fears, and rivet our attention—all of it—on the present moment.”
“Is it true? (Yes or no. If no, move to question 3.) Can I absolutely know that it’s true? (Yes or no.) How do I react, what happens, when I believe that thought? Who or what would I be without the thought?”
“In this rush to conform, we often end up ignoring or overruling our genuine feelings - even intense ones, like longing or anguish - to please our cultures. At that point, we're divided against ourselves. We aren't in integrity (one thing) but in duplicity (two things). Or we may try to fit in with a number of different groups, living in multiplicity (multiple things).”
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