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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.

Anne Lamott

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Divine Dog Forever Side
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
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
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Earth Light Myself Present Sun
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
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround 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
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
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
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side 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
I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
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
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself
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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God Need Water Woman 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
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
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
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Break Children Day Discipline Myself Need

I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.

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