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Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Anne Lamott

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
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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Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Day Life Reason Tribe Work Yourself
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Drink God Myself Thinking
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
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
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
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Miracle Morning Night Wake Up
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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Different Grace Universe Yourself
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
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Drink Myself Start Struggle Thinking Time
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Atmosphere Gift Self Care
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Light Run Save Shine Stand
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Help Offering People Save Yourself
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Believe God Myself Prayer
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
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Failure Follow Instruction Rule

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

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