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• I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Light

  "Growing into grace". Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. March 5, 2008.

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• A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

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  Love, Marriage, People

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• Laughter is carbonated holiness.

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  Laughter, Humor, Grace

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.66, Penguin

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• The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

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  Snacks, Long, Enlightenment

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.113, Anchor

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  You 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, God

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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• Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

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  Gratitude, Joy, Understanding

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.295, Penguin

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• But 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.

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  Wind, Grace, Want

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Thanks: The Second Essential Prayer”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

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  Compare

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• Hope begins in the dark.

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  Inspirational, Healing, Dark

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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• Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

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  Forgiveness, Mean, Unimportant

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.47, Penguin

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• It's better to be kind than to be right.

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  Be Kind, Kind

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• Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.

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  Gratitude, Mean, Heart

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, November 13, 2012.

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• You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

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  Artist, Finding Yourself, Tea

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

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  Three, Be Kind, Praying

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• I 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.

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  Law, People, Four

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• 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.

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  Badass, Mistake, Women

  "Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be: Where to Start" by Anne Lamott, www.oprah.com.

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• 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.

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  Inspiring, Hope, Giving Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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• I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.

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  Fighting, Self, Promise

  "Borrowing Time for Bliss" by Christine Carter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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  Prayer, Two, Helping

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Anchor

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• You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

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  Positivity, Practice, Be Kind

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.94, Penguin

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• In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

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  Drinking, Waiting, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.120, Anchor

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• 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.

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  Baby, People, Looks

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• Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

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  Sweet, Destiny, Practice

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• I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.

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  Jesus, Cat, Alcohol

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.117, Anchor

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• Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.

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  Heart, Soul, Age

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