"Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion."
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"Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically."
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"Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves."
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"No act of love is ever wasted."
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"Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love."
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"I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not."
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"Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on."
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"If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else."
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"Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death."
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"The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you."
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"It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse."
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"You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today."
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"You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . ."
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"We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us."
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"Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished."
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"And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate."
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"Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we’re willing to look at it."
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"Take time to thank your body."
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"How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything."
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"Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too."
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