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How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it in the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn...I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Egg laying is the main thing, Lily. She's the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going. I don't care what their job is--they know the queen is their mother. She's the mother of thousands.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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95b13df
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I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love. I myself, for instance. It seemed like I was now thinking of Zach forty minutes out of every hour, Zach, who was an impossibility. That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log throw on the fires of love.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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The day life turned into nothing this world could fix,
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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You don't have to put your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and the other things we need to get through life," she said. "You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart."
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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August says to Lily," You know some things don't matter that much Lily. Like the colour of the house. How big is that in overall scheme of life? But lifiting person's heart- now that matters. The whole problem with people is - they know what matters but they don't choose it. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters"
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin.
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Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor |
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God is he whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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I thought of the girl who bathed in a copper tub. I thought of the woman who stole a bullet mold. I loved that girl, that woman.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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7636222
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There is nothing perfect, there is only life.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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1b398be
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Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Solitude is a time for "God and God alone." Who knows what can happpen when we focus only on God. In solitude, we sense our deep oneness with God and keep company with Him. Solitude is breaking through my isolation into sharing and being in touch with my Creator. In fact, we can begin to heal our loneliness by transforming it into solitude."
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too fragile, too vulnerable to bring into the public eye. Tender things with tiny roots tend to wither in the glare of public scrutiny. By holding my awakening within, I contained the energy of it, and it fed me the way blood feeds muscle. It fed me a certain propelling energy, and I kept moving forward.
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privacy
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Goods and chattel. The words from the leather book came into my head. We were like the gold leaf mirror and the horse saddle. Not full-fledge people. I didn't believe this, never had believed it a day of my life, but if you listen to white folks long enough, some sad, beat-down part of you starts to wonder. All that pride about what we were worth left me then. For the first time, I felt the hurt and shame of just being who I was. After a wh..
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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She had the look of someone who'd declared herself, and seeing it, my indignation collapsed and her mutinous bath turned into something else entirely. She'd immersed herself in forbidden privileges, yes, but mostly in the belief she was worthy of those privileges. What she'd done was not a revolt, it was a baptism. I saw then what I hadn't seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous m..
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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You think there's no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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As long as you live under my roof, you'll do what I say!" he shouted. Then I'll find another roof, I thought.
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secret-life-of-bees
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The queen, for the most part, is the unifying force of the community, if she removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Why should God's perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?" I asked. "Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis?"
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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That night it felt strange to be in the honey house by myself. I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realise how it had comforted me. Quietness has a strange, spungy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.
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Sue Monk Kidd (Author) |
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The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she'd taken it hard. Her market excursions were the acme of her days, and trying to commiserate, I'd said, "I'm sorry, Handful, I know how you must feel." It seemed to me I did know what it felt to have one's liberty curtailed, but she blazed up at me. "So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one t..
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equality
slavery
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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You do your rebellions any way you can.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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b1ee781
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Quien cree que no hay nada peor que morirse poco sabe de la vida.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Ms. came into practice, to give a woman an alternative to being recognized by her marital status, and thereby known as herself. How do I want to be known.
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Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor |
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It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it's not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.
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life-answers
meaning-of-life
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. You just had to faint.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do. To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in order to heal and differentiate themselves from it.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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women made the best beekeepers, cause they have a special ability in them to love creatures that sting.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.
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memories
love
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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85833f4
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They say you can bear anything if you can tell a story about it.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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Aunt-Sister said Charleston had a case of the grandeurs. Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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106ff07
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I would like to be free of the part of me that dares too little and fears too much.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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81d86d3
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To be honest, I had been restless...The sensation would rise suddenly like freight from the ocean floor--the unexpected discontent of cows in their pasture. The constant chewing of all that cud.
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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Sue Monk Kidd |