Take time to thank your body.

You can be aware of your past without being it.

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.

. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first.

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

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.