All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope. Geneen Roth More Quotes by Geneen Roth More Quotes From Geneen Roth 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. Geneen Roth change inspirational love 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. Geneen Roth treats enough looks 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. Geneen Roth pantomime awareness wish 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. Geneen Roth dog sweet children 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. Geneen Roth successful loss heart Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. Geneen Roth protecting-ourselves happened loss 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. Geneen Roth sorry love-you believe Awareness is learning to keep yourself company Geneen Roth pantomime company awareness 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. Geneen Roth interest reason want What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now. Geneen Roth self-love love-yourself motivational 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. Geneen Roth body want attention 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. Geneen Roth meditation practice mind 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. Geneen Roth knowing-who-you-are drug fear If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend. Geneen Roth monday morning jobs You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that. Geneen Roth real monday morning 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. Geneen Roth anorexia live-life soul 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. Geneen Roth sunset holiday dream Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time. Geneen Roth awake broken healing We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel. Geneen Roth feels way 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. Geneen Roth beautiful country children
