When we look at the world through shattered lenses, the world looks shattered. When we eat a particular way because we believe that we are wrong if we don’t, freedom isn’t free.
When we are still bound by beliefs about good and bad, it doesn’t matter what we eat or what we weigh—we are still caught in the obsession. We are still paying for taking up space in pounds of flesh. Unless we slow down, unless we are actually interested in the beliefs and the needs we are piling on top of the food, we continue to live in a limbo world in which the taste of food is all we know of heaven and the size of our thighs is all we know of hell.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. The real holiness is not in what we achieve or eat or weigh. There is something better than endlessly pushing the boulder of obsession up the mountain: putting it down.
And if you are willing to refrain from dieting and needing an instant solution, and if you want to use your relationship with food as a doorway to your true nature, it will happen.
Geneen Roth