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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

Anne Lamott

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Failure Follow Instruction Rule
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Help Offering People Save Yourself
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
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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Children Existence Heart Place Remember
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Atmosphere Gift Self Care
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
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.
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Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
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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Law Myself Reminder Right Spirit
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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