It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she s… - Anne Lamott

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It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.

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Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.

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