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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
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Wish
Lost
Cannot
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My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
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It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my energy from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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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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It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
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I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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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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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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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.
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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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I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
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