I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all. Anne Lamott More Quotes by Anne Lamott More Quotes From Anne Lamott ...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. Anne Lamott crafts cat interesting Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. Anne Lamott revelations materials given I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know. Anne Lamott lines long people Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity. Anne Lamott pet sides thinking I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left. Anne Lamott dark home people When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around and say, Wow, there's that same mockingbird; there's that woman in the red hat again. The woman in the red hat is about hope because she's in it up to her neck, too, yet every day she puts on that crazy red hat and walks to town. Anne Lamott crazy writing looks We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. Anne Lamott trying inspirational looks To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass. Anne Lamott ass powerful mind Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. Anne Lamott necks breathing inspirational There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure. Anne Lamott writing people thinking This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing. Anne Lamott disappointing confusing body I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Anne Lamott opposites thinking For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother. Anne Lamott rocks brother jesus I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically. Anne Lamott dangerous-world views way No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world. Anne Lamott parent identity self I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it. Anne Lamott listening heart believe I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you. Anne Lamott lines remember long Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer. Anne Lamott prayer heart jobs If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem. Anne Lamott money problem interesting He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. Anne Lamott shining light people
