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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
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Sylvester
Georgia
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Seemed
Worse
Gone
Getting
Church
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Something
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Forty

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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
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We become what we pay attention to.
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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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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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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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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
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You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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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.
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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