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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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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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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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I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.
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Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.
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Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.
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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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Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first
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We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
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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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We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not people who will cheer us up so that we don’t feel it. We need friends who get furious with us when we are not being real or true to ourselves, not when we don’t do what they want us to do.
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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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If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.
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There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves, as if it is going to fill us up.
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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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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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We eat the way we live.
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Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.
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No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.
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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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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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