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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.
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There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.
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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
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Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
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My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable
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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
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We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
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We all know we're going to die what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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This is our goal as writers, I think to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.
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Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.
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