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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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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.
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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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Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
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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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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.
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Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.
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That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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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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Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.
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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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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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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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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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