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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
Without
Journey
Unfolding
Real
Taking
Feminine
Space
Sticks
Things
Story
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Time
Dream
Missing
Like
Stories
Walking
Antlers
Might
Dreams
Epiphany
Come
Deep
Deer

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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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