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I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean they show us how to live and die.
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I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
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I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
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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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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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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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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
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I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
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Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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