Geneen Roth Quotes

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• For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.

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  Love, Inspirational, Change

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Apr 24, 2014

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• Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

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  Looks, Enough, Treats

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 16, 2012

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• Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life.

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  Dog, Sweet, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Nov 20, 2012

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• Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

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  Heart, Successful, Loss

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• Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

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  Want, Reason, Interest

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• Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

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  Wish, Awareness, Pantomime

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

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  Loss, Protecting Ourselves, Happened

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

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• What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

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  Motivational, Love Yourself, Self Love

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012

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• If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

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  Attention, Body, Want

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

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  Awareness, Pantomime, Company

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

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  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Monday, Morning, Jobs

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2010

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• Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

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  Sorry, Love You, Believe

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Apr 08, 2012

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

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  Way, Feels

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Mar 30, 2012

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• No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge.

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  Live Life, Anorexia, Soul

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies by as if in a dream. Satisfaction in anything--a meal, an interaction, a gift, a sunset--depends on your willingness to take it in. Breathe. Feel your arms and your legs. You are allowed to love every little thing about yourself and your life. You are allowed to take up space and be all that you are. Really you are.

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  Dream, Holiday, Sunset

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Dec 10, 2012

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• You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.

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  Monday, Morning, Believe

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• If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

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  Kindness, Bad Day, Trying

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Sep 02, 2011

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

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  Spiritual, Purpose, Way

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

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  Understanding, Mind, Doe

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• You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

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  Monday, Morning, Real

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.

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  Fear, Knowing Who You Are, Drug

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

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  Healing, Broken, Awake

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.

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  Monday, Morning, Heart

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• I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.

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  Beautiful, Country, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 23, 2014

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