Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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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.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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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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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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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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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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