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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
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I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
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You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
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My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
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And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
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Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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