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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
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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.
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The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
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I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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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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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
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This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.
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