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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
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And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'
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So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
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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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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
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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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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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