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.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

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.

No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.

Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe

It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose voice does not count. It matters whether you treat yourself with reverence or with carelessness. Every bit of work you do on yourself matters. Every time you choose love, it matters.

Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.