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We eat the way we live.

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Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.
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Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.
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Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.
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How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything.
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When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears. And yes, it really is that simple.
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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.
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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 eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.
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Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.
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What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.
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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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Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.
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Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.
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Awareness is learning to keep yourself company
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Compulsive eating is only the symptom believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.
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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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Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.
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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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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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Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.
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