Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

I needed to prove to myself that what I wanted most was not forbidden, but what I didn’t understand was that I didn’t want the cookies; I wanted the way being allowed to have them made me feel: welcomed, deserving, adored.

Since you are eating anyway, moving around in your body anyway, being aware of something anyway, why not spend that time waking yourself up instead of deadening yourself? Is there anything better to do with a life?

that what will kill her is wanting another life than the one she has,

The obsession will end because you care enough about yourself to stop damaging yourself with food.

But you have food—and it is your greatest teacher. If you are willing to engage with yourself rather than run from yourself, and if you are willing to be steadfast and not get seduced by the newest greatest diet, you already have what people go to India to get. Right there on your plate, right smack in the middle of your day-today life, you have yo

Food—as matter turned to spirit—is the direct connection between the physical and the spiritual, between what we put in our mouths and what we feel in our hearts.

Why not practice ending your suffering instead of perpetuating it?

It’s false because it’s based on inference, not direct experience.

You’d listen to your body. You’d eat to nourish yourself. You’d love yourself with food.