Anne Lamott is an American teacher, speaker, and author of numerous novels and nonfiction books. Her writings and teachings cover subjects such as faith, Christianity, and sobriety.
CLEAR ALL
Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people’s problems as our own.
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
We are what we believe we are!
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.