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How alive am I willing to be?

How alive am I willing to be?
– Anne Lamott

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  2. …It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. – Anne Lamott
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  6. Certainty is missing the point entirely. – Anne Lamott
  7. It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you’re burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. – Anne Lamott
  8. Resentments make even the best of us feel superior. – Anne Lamott
  9. A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal. – Anne Lamott
  10. A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal. – Anne Lamott
  11. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it’s that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped. – Anne Lamott
  12. I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. – Anne Lamott
  13. I’ve given guys blow jobs just because I’ve run out of things to talk about.’Oh, Rae. Who hasn’t – Anne Lamott
  14. There are really places in your heart that you don’t know exist until you love a child. – Anne Lamott
  15. I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance. – Anne Lamott
  16. I’ll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can–until I die. – Anne Lamott
  17. [S]he believed that the Buddhists were right-“that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) – Anne Lamott
  18. Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets. – Anne Lamott
  19. …the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. – Anne Lamott
  20. 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
  21. Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you. – Anne Lamott
  22. First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping. – Anne Lamott
  23. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. – Anne Lamott
  24. Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination. – Anne Lamott
  25. A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. – Anne Lamott
  26. [Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves. – Anne Lamott
  27. You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better. – Anne Lamott
  28. You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness. – Anne Lamott
  29. When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can. – Anne Lamott
  30. He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous. – Anne Lamott
  31. grace is a small white ????erfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101. – Anne Lamott
  32. I know nothing, except what everyone knows–if there when grace dances, I should dance. – Anne Lamott
  33. God can’t clean the house of you when you’re still in it. – Anne Lamott
  34. It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. – Anne Lamott
  35. Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. – Anne Lamott
  36. Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram–it’s the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar. – Anne Lamott
  37. A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. – Anne Lamott
  38. One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. – Anne Lamott
  39. 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. – Anne Lamott
  40. Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. – Anne Lamott

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