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Hope begins in the dark.

Anne Lamott

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
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
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
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
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
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Dance Judgement Right Yourself
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
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

Hope begins in the dark.

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