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There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Holiness
Paying
Essence
Attention
Inspirational
Everything
Kind
Openness
World
Ecstasy

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If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
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