To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
Anne LamottI also learned that you didnโt come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You werenโt born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.
Anne Lamott... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
Anne LamottPerfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
Anne Lamott