The process is the goal.
You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don’t like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being.
Take time to thank your body.
Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.
How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything.
Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn’t mean it is true.
Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face – rather than run from – the worst of ourselves.
Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.
Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.
Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.
The problem isn’t that we have bodies; the problem is that we’re not living in them.
Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.
It’s not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.
I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.
You can be aware of your past without being it.
You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.
If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you’ll feel as if you were living in heaven.
Ask: is what I’m doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.
Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.