Quote

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.

Sue Monk Kidd

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Believe
Roles
Spark
Goes
Outer
Came
Authentic
Within
Sparks
Understand
Ego
True
Identity
Soul
Beyond
Play
Divine
Transcends

More quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

Image
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
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.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
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.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
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.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
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.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
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.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
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.
Sue Monk Kidd
Image
Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
Sue Monk Kidd