Be fully present for five minutes every day.
After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.
We are strong where we were broken.
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.
You can be aware of your past without being it.
Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.
I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never named it before, or else they've named it in church, but they can't actually see the connection between what they're doing with food and this yearning. I call it "the flame" that they have: They yearn for big answers to live a big life. But they have to start with the most basic fears.
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.
It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.
The process is the goal.
It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.
There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments." We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.
We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some adrenaline and excitement.
How you eat is how you live.
I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.
We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
