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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

Anne Lamott

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Ambition Collection Love Order Personality Spirit Walk Yourself
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Difficult Enlightenment Forget Road Yourself
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity 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
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
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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Law Myself Reminder Right Spirit
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Myself Tree Understand Unity
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try

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