Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are. Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes From Sue Monk Kidd After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it. Sue Monk Kidd matter How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living. Sue Monk Kidd essence heart thinking You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you. Sue Monk Kidd soul listening song As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark. Sue Monk Kidd ocean strong dark Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now. Sue Monk Kidd suitcases truth-is lying Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things. Sue Monk Kidd what-matters sometimes order Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts. Sue Monk Kidd heart people world We become what we pay attention to. Sue Monk Kidd pay-attention pay attention There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance. Sue Monk Kidd knowing acceptance matter In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was. Sue Monk Kidd nice real hurt You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside Sue Monk Kidd being-a-mom stills mother You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on. Sue Monk Kidd letting-go love mean To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs. Sue Monk Kidd fashion pain heart Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die. Sue Monk Kidd companionship support social People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. Sue Monk Kidd forgiving bees people Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care. Sue Monk Kidd bed monday order The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't. Sue Monk Kidd body mind long Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention. Sue Monk Kidd storm envy rain People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. Sue Monk Kidd plain-language order people I believe in the goodness of imagination. Sue Monk Kidd goodness imagination believe
