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Geneen Roth: “Life is the Doorway”

By Geneen Roth — 2011

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Geneen Roth is the author of eight books, including the New York Times best-sellers When Food is Love and Women Food and God. See more...

02:24 min

FindCenter Quotes Image People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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FindCenter Quotes Image Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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FindCenter Quotes Image The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy

Accepting ourselves requires less work, less achieving and less doing than one might think. The path to greater happiness, greater contentment, and greater self-love is the basis for Catherine A. Wood’s debut book, Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy.

Catherine A. Wood, Emily Joy Rosen (foreword)

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Here’s How Money Really Can Buy You Happiness

If you want to know how to use the money you have to become happier, you need to understand just what it is that brings you happiness in the first place.

Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior

Self-defeating behavior is the single most common reason that people seek psychotherapy. It is a poison, preventing us from achieving the love, success and happiness we want in our lives.

Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg

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Curiosity and Wellness

What you don’t know may very well hurt you. Curiosity is essential to wellness.

Alison Bonds Shapiro

If Self-Discipline Feels Difficult, Then You’re Doing It Wrong

Many equate self-discipline with living a good, moral life, which ends up creating a lot of shame when we fail. There’s a better way to build lasting, solid self-discipline in your life.

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Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice

In this collection of never-before published teachings by Charlotte Joko Beck, one of the most influential Western-born Zen teachers, she explores our “core beliefs”—the hidden, negative convictions we hold about ourselves that direct our thoughts and behavior and prevent us from experiencing...

Charlotte Joko Beck

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The Four Agreements Companion Book: Using the Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life

The Four Agreements introduced a simple, but powerful code of conduct for attaining personal freedom and true happiness. Now The Four Agreements Companion Book takes you even further along the journey to recover the awareness and wisdom of your authentic self.

don Miguel Ruiz

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