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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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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…

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After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

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“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a…

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“People often mistake tenderheartedness for indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy—sitting around the house all day eating bonbons and wearing…

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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…

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“Pay careful attention to the bodily sensations that you recognize as hunger. When you feel yourself starting to get hungry, sit down for a…

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The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and…

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I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience…

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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

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In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed…

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