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Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.

Geneen Roth

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Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.
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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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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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Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
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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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