I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTI think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTTCreative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
ANNE LAMOTTWriting and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTTYou can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTTPrayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
ANNE LAMOTTExpectations are resentments under construction.
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 LAMOTTHere are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTTPeople help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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 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 LAMOTTWe are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTTSmall is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTTThe road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTT