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Sue Monk Kidd
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“Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.”
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“When you can't go forward and you can't go backward and you can't stay where you are without killing off what is deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.”
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“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”
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“... it's something everybody wants — for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”
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“In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.”
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“For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.”
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“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.”
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“I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.”
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“Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.”
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“It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.”
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“One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.”
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“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, U.S. writer
(1948)