Quotes by Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth

. . . 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. It’s as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first.

Inspiring

Journey

Somewhere Else

After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That’s a difficult thing for people to believe.

Believe

Money

People

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.

Compassion

Kindness

Snakes

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.

People

Reality

Worry

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.

Want

Way

Weight

Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it’s only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

Bad Day

Long

Running

Ask: is what I’m doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.

Heart

Monday

Morning

Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice–and therefore awareness itself–is freedom.

Awareness

Choices

Way

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

Awareness

Company

Pantomime

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.

Awareness

Pantomime

Wish

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Bigs

Blood

Body

Boots

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Change

Cheer

Children

Chocolate

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Company

Compassion

Concrete

Country

Decided

Defining Ourselves

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Desire

Different

Divorce

Doe

Dog

Doom

Doorways

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Drug

Dying

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Enough

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Quotes by Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth

After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That’s a difficult thing for people to believe.

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.

Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it’s only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

Ask: is what I’m doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.

Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice–and therefore awareness itself–is freedom.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

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.

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