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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

Anne Lamott

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 LAMOTT

Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Human People Togetherness Yourself
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Failure Follow Instruction Rule
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Carry Death Easy Greatness Life Mom Ourselves
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Drink God Myself Thinking
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Miracle Morning Night Wake Up
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
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
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Experience Grace Resolution Strength Wind Yourself
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See

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