Sublime

Eat fewer donuts. But staying with the emptiness—entering it, welcoming it, using it to get to know ourselves better, being able to distinguish the stories we tell ourselves about it from the actual feeling itself—that’s radical.

In healing yourself, look carefully at everything that has held you apart from your full self and from others. This is where emotional blockages and old judgments are held, and this is where denial hides.

Total self-acceptance is the most curative habit we can develop on the spiritual path.

No matter how rational she may sound, no matter how committed she is to her beliefs about eating and weight, your child is not really responsible for what she says and does with regard to food if she has an eating disorder.

So our practice is about making fear conscious, instead of running around inside our cell of fear, trying to make it look better and feel better.

A woman’s life may die away in the fire of self-hatred for complexes can bite hard and, at least for a time, successfully frighten her away from coming too near the work or life that matters to her.

It is not always easy to resist the voice that tells us we’re flawed. Don’t forget that advertisers give us just this message so we will spend our money attempting to fix ourselves. There is a reason the diet industry generates about sixty billion dollars per year!

There is nothing like having chocolate cake three inches away to reveal your fear of chaos or your desire to melt into it.