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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
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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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Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages? August said. And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.
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I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but 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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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.
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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
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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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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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Every little thing wants to be loved.
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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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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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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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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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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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