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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.

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
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Dance Judgement Right 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
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
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
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
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
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 are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
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
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
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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Finding Leaving Mystery Understand 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
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

I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.

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