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Anne Lamott
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TED Talks Daily · 12 truths I learned from life and writing | Anne Lamott
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What Is Spiritual WD-40
Grace, or water wings. It is what changes us, heals us, and heals our world. Grace finds you exactly where you are, but doesn’t leave you where it found you.
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What Is Something That Death Taught Anne
Wow and yikes. You will never get over these losses and you’re not supposed to. Their absence will be a lifelong homesickness. Death is as sacred as birth.
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What Is Carbonated Holiness
Laugher, because it helps us breathe again and again. It also helps us give back to ourselves. This gives us faith in life and each other.
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What Does Anne Say the Secret to Life Is
Everything that happens to you is yours to tell. Every writer writes terrible drafts, but they keep their butt in the chair. Writers do it by prearrangement with themselves, they do it as a debt of honor, and they tell stories that come through them one day at a time.
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What Does Anne Lamott Say About Self-care?
On TED Talks Daily, Anne Lamott says radical self-care is quantum. It radiates out from you into the atmosphere like a little fresh air, and it is a huge gift to the world. She contrasts it with the futile work of trying to save, fix, or rescue someone else, or to get another person sober. If people answer by asking whether she is full of herself, she says to smile like the Mona Lisa and make a cup of tea for both of you. Affection for your own goofy, cranky, annoying self is home, she says, and that is where world peace begins.
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How Does Anne View Helping Others
Help is an inside job. If it's someone else’s problem, you probably don’t have the answer anyway. Our help is usually not helpful, but toxic. Help is a sunny side of control and we should stop helping so much.
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What Is Anne Lamott's First Truth That She Has Learned
Anne states the first and truest thing is that all truth is a paradox. Life is filled with heartbreak and beauty, and many other things that are swirled together.