Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTTYour 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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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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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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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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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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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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