Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes From Sue Monk Kidd The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days. Sue Monk Kidd laughter memories book Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because 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 knowing truth lying All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself. Sue Monk Kidd complete-me needed-someone needs I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters. Sue Monk Kidd darkness god water God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator. Sue Monk Kidd dust god lying When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation. Sue Monk Kidd creation killing dream What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting. Sue Monk Kidd endurance pain waiting It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters. Sue Monk Kidd done hurt want Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart. Sue Monk Kidd eye heart opportunity The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear what I’m about to tell you. I hope you’ll hear it all the way down to your toes. When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be. Sue Monk Kidd growing-up eye hands Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time. Sue Monk Kidd powerful people needs That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul. Sue Monk Kidd growth soul moving The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness. Sue Monk Kidd prayer want heart You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self. Sue Monk Kidd resources self believe Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. Sue Monk Kidd who-we-are stories writing I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away. Sue Monk Kidd shining eye people How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife? Sue Monk Kidd demand christianity ideas Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience. Sue Monk Kidd embodiment mean We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered. Sue Monk Kidd divine-feminine forever book If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. Sue Monk Kidd relationship giving hands
