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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Anne Lamott

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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Action Mistake Thinking Yourself
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
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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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Comfortable Death Safety Stay
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
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
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Human People Togetherness Yourself
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
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
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
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
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

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