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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.
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That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
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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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Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.
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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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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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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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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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Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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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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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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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 no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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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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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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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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Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
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It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
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