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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Time
Wondering
Knew
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Body
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Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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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 found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.
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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
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Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.
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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.
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So few people know what they're capable of.
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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
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I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.
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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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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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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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