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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Everything
Right
Eats
Sooner
Later
Loss
Inside
Takes

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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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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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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
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Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.
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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
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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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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
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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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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.
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I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.
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