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the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Come
Deep
Deer
Without
Journey
Unfolding
Real
Taking
Feminine
Things
Space
Sticks
Time
Story
Miss
Like
Dream
Missing
Stories
Walking
Antlers
Might
Dreams
Epiphany

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we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
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As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
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You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.
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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.
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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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