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

Anne Lamott

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
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
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
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
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
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
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
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering

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