Grace 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.
ANNE LAMOTTPeople help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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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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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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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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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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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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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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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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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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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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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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