Geneen Roth Quotes - Page 4

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• Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

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  Meditation, Mind, Desire

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• We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not people who will cheer us up so that we don’t feel it. We need friends who get furious with us when we are not being real or true to ourselves, not when we don’t do what they want us to do.

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  Cheer, Real, Loneliness

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

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  Meditation, Tools, Medley

  Twitter post from May 27, 2014

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• If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.

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  Keys, Locks, Cages

  Geneen Roth (1997). “Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment”, p.130, Penguin

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• I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

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  Wish, Doom

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first

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  Long, Unseen, Levels

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2014

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• When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.

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  Being Yourself, Believe, Space

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• Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite that made the rest of the dream possible. And since no matter how thin I got, I was frightened that I could wake up tomorrow and be fat again, the rest of the dream was forever ten or twenty pounds away.

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  Dream, Men, Forever

  Geneen Roth (1997). “Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment”, p.9, Penguin

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• If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?

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  Our Relationship, Ifs

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• The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.

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  Healing, Broken, Dying

  Geneen Roth (1991). “When food is love: exploring the relationship between eating and intimacy”, E P Dutton

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• For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

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  Opposites, Way, Bulimia

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• Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.

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  Healing, Pieces, Body

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jun 11, 2010

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

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  Different, Hell, Where You Are

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Believe

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• When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

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  Kindness, Fighting, Acceptance

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jan 15, 2012

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

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  Pain, Moments, Avoiding

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Take time to thank your body.

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  Body, Take Time, Your Body

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• Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we’re willing to look at it.

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  Hurt, Grief, Food

  "Geneen Roth on Dr. Oz, Food and Body Image". Interview with Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2012.

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• And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate.

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  Weight, Want, Way

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Oct 10, 2012

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• Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

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  Running, Self, Faces

  Geneen Roth (1992). “When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy”, p.23, Penguin

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• Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically.

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  Order, Needs, Looks

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.

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  Broken Heart, Jobs, Sometimes

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• 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.

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  Dog, Monday, Morning

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2012

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• I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never named it before, or else they've named it in church, but they can't actually see the connection between what they're doing with food and this yearning. I call it "the flame" that they have: They yearn for big answers to live a big life. But they have to start with the most basic fears.

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  Thinking, Names, Flames

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• You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true.

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  Mean, Fighting, Magic

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Aug 01, 2012

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