We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way. Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes From Sue Monk Kidd You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop. Sue Monk Kidd yelling ocean heart You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. Sue Monk Kidd mind want thinking I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums. Sue Monk Kidd ocean missing sleep You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees Sue Monk Kidd secret brain bird You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home Sue Monk Kidd sides home world Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. Sue Monk Kidd black mirrors darkness My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression. Sue Monk Kidd powerful heart children I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even. Sue Monk Kidd begging moments feels I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think." Sue Monk Kidd girl skins thinking If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull. Sue Monk Kidd giving dull people She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried. Sue Monk Kidd shattering tiny dangerous Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about. Sue Monk Kidd secret people ideas And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it. Sue Monk Kidd crevice living-my-life waiting When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid. Sue Monk Kidd not-afraid dies like-you History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own. Sue Monk Kidd events pain heart In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the very root of our being. Dr. Bruteau is a philosopher of great measure whose work should be required reading for all who seek the deepest truth about themselves. Sue Monk Kidd contemplative-life reading roots Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love. Sue Monk Kidd grandmother grandma eye I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different. Sue Monk Kidd being-in-love amazed different I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through to something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way. Sue Monk Kidd moon air thinking we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval. Sue Monk Kidd vision approval needs
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