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 More Quotes by Geneen Roth More Quotes From Geneen Roth If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always. Geneen Roth bad-day kindness trying The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live. Geneen Roth way 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. Geneen Roth monday morning believe . . . 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. 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Geneen Roth alive mirrors feelings What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable. Geneen Roth hard-times mind people The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you. Geneen Roth live-life missing earthquakes To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat. Geneen Roth attention believe thinking 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. Geneen Roth worry reality people The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable. Geneen Roth purpose spiritual way
