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Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time. (Geneen Roth)
. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. View quote
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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. View quote
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Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not. View quote
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You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible. View quote
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Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true. View quote
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Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom. View quote
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The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them. View quote
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Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too. View quote
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Take time to thank your body. View quote
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When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights. (Geneen Roth)
Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished. View quote
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Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with. View quote
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No act of love is ever wasted. View quote
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Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion. View quote
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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. View quote
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Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe. View quote
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We eat the way we live. View quote
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Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given. (Geneen Roth)
After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives. View quote
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If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say? View quote
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Geneen Roth

Occupation: Writer
Quotes count: 57

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