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

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.

If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

. . . 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.

Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.