Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it.

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

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.