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So few people know what they're capable of.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
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We must err , do so on the side of audacity
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
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Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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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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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
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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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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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It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.
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Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.
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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.
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