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If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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