On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight. Anne Lamott More Quotes by Anne Lamott More Quotes From Anne Lamott There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder. Anne Lamott hunger dream wonder Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? Anne Lamott becoming alive asking I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving. Anne Lamott doctors mother giving Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. Anne Lamott best-friendship disappoint ifs The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away. Anne Lamott surprise depth feelings My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone. Anne Lamott neighborhood mind trying 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. Anne Lamott soul age heart We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues. Anne Lamott writing doors jobs You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. Anne Lamott intuition space mind Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel. Anne Lamott toddler should law You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. Anne Lamott I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this. Anne Lamott worry sleep jesus It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often. Anne Lamott self kids thinking My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. Anne Lamott space parent laughing We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this. Anne Lamott important writing men Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. Anne Lamott responsibility believe people You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Anne Lamott knowing profound dirty I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be. Anne Lamott children people needs If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. Anne Lamott ocean uplifting blessing Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without. Anne Lamott alive loss people
