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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.

Anne Lamott

I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Believe God Myself Prayer
Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Best Help Prayer Thankful
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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Creation Expression Search Time Writing
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Ourselves Present Thinking World
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Age Heart Old Person Soul Young Yourself
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Day Life Reason Tribe Work Yourself
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.

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