"The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them."
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"Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom."
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"We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives."
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"The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time."
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"The process is the goal."
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"Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence from replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?"
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"Be fully present for five minutes every day."
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"Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it."
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"Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love."
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"We are strong where we were broken."
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"After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe."
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"We eat the way we live."
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"Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite that made the rest of the dream possible. And since no matter how thin I got, I was frightened that I could wake up tomorrow and be fat again, the rest of the dream was forever ten or twenty pounds away."
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"Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe"
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"Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first"
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"It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken."
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"I live between fearing doom and wishing for it."
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"Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true."
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"You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true."
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"You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being."
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