Steering by Starlight Quotes

“The poet Mary Oliver did this in one of her poems, brazenly asking, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” If you’re afraid you’ve come to this question too late, you are wrong. Ask your Stargazer self. It will tell you what my fallen-noble friend Marianna told me in one of my darker hours: that the world is re-created in every instant of time, and this moment is always your life’s beginning. No matter how many years have been stolen from you by your own ignorance, by cruel fate, or by the acts of others, you have a clean, broad slate before you. In this instant—this one now—you can begin steering by starlight, and if you do, the rest of creation will conspire to guide, teach, and help you.”
― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“You will never realize your best destiny through the avoidance of fear. Rather, you will realize it through the exercise of courage, which means taking whatever action is most liberating to the soul, even when you are afraid.”
― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“if two people agree on everything, one of them is superfluous.”
― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feelings 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.”
― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“Every experience that’s part of your best destiny is beautiful to your soul.”
― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“enlightenment always tastes of freedom.”
― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“Laughter is the highest form of prayer.”
― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.”
― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny