The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTTThe road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTTYou 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 LAMOTTI 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 LAMOTTI don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTTPay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTTGrace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
ANNE LAMOTTI 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.
ANNE LAMOTTNothing 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 LAMOTTLaughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTTLove falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
ANNE LAMOTTButterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTTSometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
ANNE LAMOTTI was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
ANNE LAMOTTRule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
ANNE LAMOTTYou own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTTBut grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
ANNE LAMOTT