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Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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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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I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
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We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
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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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You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
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So few people know what they're capable of.
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T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.
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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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I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.
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It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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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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Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.
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Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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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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