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You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Looking
Practicing
Song
Experiencing
Soul
Sacred
Way
Listening
Make
Ways
Path
Create
Cultivating
Within
Sings

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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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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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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 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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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.
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I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
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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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