Anne Lamott Quotes About Emptiness

Quotes about: Emptiness

• Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

  Anne Lamott

  Faith, Light, Return

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.257, Penguin

• I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Real, Light

• You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Writing, Filling Up

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