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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

Anne Lamott

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
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Myself Tree Understand Unity
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Atmosphere Gift Self Care
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right 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
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Ourselves Present Thinking World
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
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
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

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

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