Posts tagged Anne Lamott
Posts tagged Anne Lamott
“The de-legitimization Noah describes is the attempt by the self-appointed bishops of the religious right to exclude those millions from Christianity — and to prevent the remaining majority of white evangelical Protestants from being able to imagine that voting for anyone other than who they’re told to vote for is even a possibility.”
I remember the first time I read Anne Lamott, I was 16 years old, and trying to figure out how I was going to deal with what at the time seemed like a major conflict, and then I was like… “oh, I actually have a place here.”
this link is by way of my friend David
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Anne Lamott
…Traveling Mercies
I don’t think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
Anne Lamott
Bird By Bird
The rational mind doesn’t nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what’s keeping things running right.
Anne Lamott
In “Bird by Bird”
I think she is one smart cookie
“We at the Church of Eighty Percent Sincerity do not believe in miracles” he said. “but we do believe that you have to stay alert, because good things happen. When God opens the door, you’ve got to put your foot in.
“Eighty percent sincerity is about as good as it’s going to get. So is eighty percent compassion. Eighty percent celibacy. So twenty percent of the time, you just get to be yourself.”
It’s such subversive material, so contrary to everything society leads us to believe— that if you look good, you’ll be happy, and have it all together, and you’ll be successful and nothing will go wrong and you won’t have to die, and the rot won’t get in.
In the Church of Eighty Percent Sincerity, you definitely don’t have to look good, but you are supposed to meditate. According to David’s instructions, you sit quietly with your eyes closed and you follow your breath in and out of your body, gently watching your mind. Your mantra should go like this: “Why and I doing this? This is such a waste! I have so much to do! My butt itches…” And if you stick to it, he promised, from time to time calm and peace of mind will intrude. After some practice with this basic meditation, you will be able to graduate to panic meditation, and then sex fantasy meditations. And meditations on what to do when you win the lotto.
Because I love Anne Lamott
From her book Plan B
