This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
Anne LamottWhere do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
Anne LamottWithout using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.
Anne LamottI would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
Anne LamottAnd I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.
Anne Lamott