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 a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.

Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.