If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.