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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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For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).
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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.
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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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We eat the way we live.
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. . . 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.
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The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.
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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.
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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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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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If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?
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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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Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.
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Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
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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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If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.
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If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.
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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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No act of love is ever wasted.
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There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, I missed the ordinary moments. We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.
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And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.
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