Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.

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.

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.

There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves, as if it is going to fill us up.

We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.

The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them.