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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.

Anne Lamott

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Failure Follow Instruction Rule
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Age Heart Old Person Soul Young Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
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
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
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
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
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
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
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
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Dance Judgement Right Yourself
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

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