“Self-knowledge is the foundation of a practical spirituality, a spirituality that ripples outward from the self into the world.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“The spiritual self is the deepest, most integrated aspect of who we are.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“The spiritual realm is not the ethereal beyond our lived experience. It is our experience, lived fully and well.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“we have few words for spiritual beyond those that refer back to a God. But not believing in a God is not… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“The lesson of daily spiritual practice is not a complicated one and requires no special equipment; we are simply learning to love.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“The reward is entrance to the “world of the Spirit,” which is to say, entrance to this world, a place at this… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“So rather than running from doubt, shutting down our spirits and hearts, or reaching for quick certainty, we can use doubt as… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“It is easy to write off childlike faith in the universe and childlike wonder at the world as simply a lack of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“So what are the spiritual principles that we want guiding us as we interact with others? I can think of a few… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Whether one believes that transformation is effected by the will of an outer force, or the willingness of an inner self, does… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your culture. Very… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
