Best Geneen Roth Quotes
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Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even…
Address
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You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a…
Allow
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I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.
Doom
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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…
Activity
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The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who…
Actually End
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Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.
Awareness
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To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't go the way…
Act
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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…
All
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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…
Act
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The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.
Believable
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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…
Attention
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Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
Become Effortless
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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.
Already Happened
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Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.
From
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The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them.
Bodies
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Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.
Been
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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…
Build
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Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.
Awake
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Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.
Cherished
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Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.
Face
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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…
Awake
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You can be aware of your past without being it.
Aware
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Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.
Body
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Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not,
Hungry
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Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and…
Awareness
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