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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Anne Lamott

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
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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Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Best Help Prayer Thankful
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
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
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself
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
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Failure Follow Instruction Rule

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