Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when youโre secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
Anne LamottI don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
Anne Lamott[S]he believed that the Buddhists were rightโthat if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
Anne LamottYou are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
Anne LamottIt turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.
Anne Lamott