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

Anne Lamott

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Care Message Moral Passionate Position 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
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
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
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
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
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
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
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
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
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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Best Help Prayer Thankful

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

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