I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
ANNE LAMOTTGrace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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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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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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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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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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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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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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