A Course in Weight Loss Quotes

“Our suffering does not make us weak; only our avoidance of suffering makes us weak. And that avoidance—the avoidance of legitimate suffering—is unfortunately bolstered by the cultural attitudes of a society obsessed with cheap and easy happiness.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“You are a perfect child of a divine Creator, and nothing about you is imperfect. The Creator, being perfect, does not create the imperfect. It is therefore humble—not arrogant—to accept the divine perfection of your true self. In any moment when you behaved imperfectly, you did not become imperfect; in that moment, you simply forgot your perfection. You simply forgot who you are. And when we cannot remember who we are, we have a harder time behaving like the person who in our heart we most long to be.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“But a spiritual fever, like a physical fever, actually has a productive function: it burns up disease. Think of your pain as a feverish burning up of fear. As you heal physically, extreme fever can lead to delirium. And as you heal spiritually, your fever can lead to delirium as well—a quiet delirium of the soul. But this too shall pass.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“It’s all right if this part of your journey is not pleasant. Part of your repatterning is learning to be with unpleasantness in a healthy way. The mature and sober person knows that on some days things simply feel rotten, and that is okay. You are learning to move through distress by simply being with it, without the need to overeat or to act out in any other way.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“Toxicity is often released through the tear ducts as part of the body’s natural genius at flushing itself out. Casual use of antidepressants is unwise for just this reason—feeling the full extent of your sadness is sometimes the only way to heal it. In the absence of the feeling, you miss out on the healing. The body does not make distinctions among physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual stresses. It is equipped with the natural intelligence to address them all.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“You’re afraid of feelings the way you’re afraid of food: you’re afraid that once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of control when they’re not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine Mind, they’re lifted to divine right order—where they will be appropriately felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites, for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“It’s actually ironic that you should be afraid of feeling your feelings; as an overeater, what you have created for yourself and have had to endure are some of the most painful emotions there are. The horrible feelings of failure that are endemic to the chronic overeater make your tolerance for pain already higher than you think. The pain you’re trying to avoid is nothing compared to the pain you’ve already lived through. The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung said: “All neurosis is a substitute for legitimate suffering.” Any pathological tendency—overeating included—represents the twisted energies of unprocessed pain. The pathology is not ended by suppressing your pain, but by feeling the legitimate suffering it is seeking to express.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“It has been said that love brings up everything unlike itself, and sometimes just when we feel we are moving toward a solution, the problem jumps up again and grabs us by the throat. That is natural. It is part of the process. Do not despair.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“It has been said that love brings up everything unlike itself, and sometimes just when we feel we are moving towards a solution, the problem comes up again and grabs us by the throat. That is natural. It is part of the process. Do not despair.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“Life might have taught you that emotions are dangerous. Perhaps as a child, you were told things such as, “Don’t you cry or I’ll give you something to cry about!”—an emotionally tyrannical message that certainly would have taught you to suppress your feelings at all costs. Perhaps your emotions were ignored, minimized, or even laughed at by parents who had other things and other children to think about. What matters is that, for whatever reason, you learned at a very young age to neither honor nor even really feel your own feelings.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“When you grasp excessively for anything in this world—and for you that happens to be food—you deny what is trying to emerge from deep within you. Failing to experience what is supposed to happen—your own internal communion with self—you are thrown into an awful, primordial void, bereft by what feels like the absence of your Creator. You don’t really mean to be grasping for food. You mean to be grasping for God. And there is only one way to do that. You cannot find Him except where He lives. And He lives in you.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“Dear God, Please free me from false appetites and take away my pain. Take from me my addicted self, and show me who I am. Unchain my heart so I might live a freer life at last. Amen”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“One antibiotic pill doesn’t knock out your infection on the first day, either—you have to take the whole round of antibiotics. If you have an infection, you don’t say after taking one pill, “I still have a cough, so obviously this isn’t working.” Prayer is spiritual medicine. It boosts your spiritual immune system by increasing the depth of your surrender. Whether or not you believe it works is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter what you think about surrendering to the divine. All that matters is that you surrender.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“You are about to embark upon a specific journey, and as with everything else in your life, you have two choices: you can play it shallow or you can play it deep.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“Tienes la misión de armonizar tu mente mortal con la Mente Divina, pues el miedo puede apegarse a la materia mortal, pero no a la Divinidad. Cuando invocas a la Mente Divina, no estás apelando a un poder externo a ti. Estás apelando a una fuerza que mora en tu interior. El Espíritu es la perfección que impregna todas las cosas, tanto para protegerlas del caos como para restaurar la armonía una vez que el desorden se ha manifestado. El”
― Marianne Williamson, La dieta del alma: 21 lecciones espirituales que pondrán fin para siempre a tus problemas de peso (Nutrición y dietética)

“Sólo hay dos tipos de pensamientos, los inspirados por el amor y los inducidos por el miedo, y”
― Marianne Williamson, La dieta del alma: 21 lecciones espirituales que pondrán fin para siempre a tus problemas de peso (Nutrición y dietética)

“Para vencer, necesitas a Dios.”
― Marianne Williamson, La dieta del alma: 21 lecciones espirituales que pondrán fin para siempre a tus problemas de peso (Nutrición y dietética)

“You’ve learned something about yourself from all of this: you do not function well outside the circle of God’s love.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“Excess fat is not just inert cellular tissue. It is a repository of twisted, distorted thoughts and feelings that didn’t have anywhere else to go. If you remove the fat tissue but do not remove its psychic cause, then the fat might go but the causal imprint remains. And the imprint, in time, will attract more substance with which to materially express itself.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn’t have any more tears left.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“Defending against being overwhelmed by your emotions, you actually create emotions that are overwhelming. You begin by trying to keep your emotions at bay, eat them, go numb instead of feeling them—and in so doing, create a situation that causes you an endless run of painful emotions. By trying to escape your feelings, you create a whole slew of them that will arrive full force once you realize what you’ve done. The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“Central to the holistic healing of your weight issue is that you develop a new skill set with which to deal with unpleasant emotions. An emotion swept under the rug is not an emotion that goes away; it’s simply an emotion that is put somewhere other than where it should be put. It becomes inert rather than dynamic energy, stored within you rather than being released.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“If you deny yourself your own passion, your own path, your own longing, your own drama, your own life force, your own truth—then you might be tempted to live vicariously through those who allow themselves theirs. Your creative energy has got to go somewhere, even if it is projected onto others. You’re tempted to live a life of fantasy if you deny yourself a life of truth.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“God has enough to think about,” people often say, as though we shouldn’t bother Him with our petty problems. But there is no spot in the universe that isn’t filled, infused, permeated, and lifted up by the divine. Your Creator can’t be left out, except in your thinking. And wherever He is left out in your thinking, He can’t help you.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

“That morning David realized that grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.
Laugh when every time you can Mr Lichtenstein. Apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever