Ben Kohns

“She told me not long ago, “I’m not suicidal, but sometimes I wish I was dead.” This is the point beyond exhaustion, when you can’t see how you’ll ever fill up again. And then she does, through what she calls lunch-money faith: nothing dramatic, and just enough.”
― Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

“Whether it’s Mount Sinai, a pasture, a library, the creek down the road, aliveness (or whatever you want to call it) the song is above us, around us, within us. We transcend the incessant and wearying yammer of bullshit. Transcendence means you go from judgment, separation from life and yourself, to feeling at one-ish with the universe. We hook into something bigger than we are, truer than the self-serving stories we make up about life and ourselves.”
― Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
― Anita Barrows, A Year with Rilke

“You pay twenty-five dollars to hear one of my heroes, Thich Nhat Hanh, say: “When you walk, just walk.” You think: I paid good money for this? Notice your feet as they connect to the earth? Left foot, right foot, breathe? Crazy.”
― Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage