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You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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We become what we pay attention to.
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The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
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Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
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Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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