Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
Anne LamottTry looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
Anne LamottFor me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
Anne LamottEverything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
Anne Lamott