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#1

“Believing isn’t the hard part; waiting on God is. So I stuck with it and prayed impatiently for patience, and to stop feeling disgusted by myself, and to believe for a few moments that God, just a bit busy with other suffering in the world, actually cared about one menopausal white woman on a binge.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: binge

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#2

“Most of us don’t notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights—way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause—and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: beauty

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#3

“A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: deal, marriage, spouse

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#4

“If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: soul-care

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#5

“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, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: creation, darkness, god, outdoors

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#6

“I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: expectation, life, secret

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#7

“In early sobriety I heard that if you have an idea after ten p.m., it is probably not a good idea—and this was before e-mail.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: idea, sobriety

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#8

“Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: bullet, praise, prayer, surrender

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#9

“Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: answer, crack, heart, light, mail, phone

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#10

“It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: clue, hope, jesus, line

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#11

“One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: law, people

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#12

“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: day, holiness, laughter, life, secret, tribe

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#13

“Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: god, heart, scripture, text, word

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#14

“I am positive of only a few things in life, and one is that if you want to have a decent middle and old age, you have to get exercise almost every day.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: age, day, life

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#15

“I danced alone for a couple of years, and came to believe that I might not ever have a passionate romantic relationship—might end up alone! I’d always been terrified of this. But I’d rather not ever be in a couple, or ever get laid again, than be in a toxic relationship. I spent a few years celibate. It was lovely, and it was sometimes lonely. I had surrendered; I’d run out of bullets. I learned to be the person I wished I’d meet, at which point I found a kind, artistic, handsome man. When we get out of bed, we hold our lower backs, like Walter Brennan, and we laugh, and bring each other the Advil.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: bullet, couple, man, person, relationship

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#16

“You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: kindness, lotion, polish

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#17

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: discomfort, emptiness, faith, light, mess, opposite, sense, walk

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#18

“Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can’t short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can’t patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: action, emptiness, grief, hope, surprise, time

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#19

“When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy’s Law.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: attention, comfort, golden-rule, law-of-karma, murphy-s-law, people

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#20

“First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: light, path, sleeve

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#21

“You need to find people who laugh gently at themselves, who remind you gently to lighten up.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: people

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#22

“Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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#23

“Take care of yourselves; take care of one another.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

tags: care

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#24

“Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.”
― Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

tags: courage, love, prayer, writing

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#25

“Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.”
― Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

tags: act, connection, manipulation, performance, search, self-aggrandizement, self-protection

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#26

“God’s love is God’s attention.”
― Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

tags: attention, god, love

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#27

“Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can’t believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.”
― Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

tags: answer, prayer, projection, surprise

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#28

“Jesus said, “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.”
― Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

tags: door, jesus, room

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#29

“It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.”
― Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

tags: awareness

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#30

“To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name.”
― Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

tags: presence

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