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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
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San Francisco County
California
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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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No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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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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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
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A hundred years from now? All new people.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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It's better to be kind than to be right.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
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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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