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This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Goodness
Possible
Sacredness
Human
Sisterhood
Humans
Easter
Life
Brotherhood
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For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
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The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
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A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.
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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. Like I love you, Elizabeth. You're the angel God sent me.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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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