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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.

Anne Lamott

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
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
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTT

Funny Life Reality Yourself
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTT

Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
ANNE LAMOTT

Day Life Reason Tribe Work Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Need Water Woman Yourself
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself
No is a complete sentence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Complete One Liner Sentence
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Judgement Right Yourself
The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
ANNE LAMOTT

Dangerous Meaning People Stand Stay Warm Wind World
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT

Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTT

Character Miracle Relationship 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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Earth Light Myself Present Sun
If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
ANNE LAMOTT

Comfortable Death Safety Stay
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Ambition Collection Love Order Personality Spirit Walk Yourself

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.

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