The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5...The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild, be irreverent, to laugh and cry until you awaken the sleeping spirits, until the ground of your being cleaves and the universe comes flooding in.

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

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.

And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.