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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

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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Help
Helping
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Wow
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Thanks
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
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That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
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Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
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I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
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I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.
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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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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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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
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You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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