Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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• All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

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  Needs, Needed Someone, Complete Me

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 01, 2014

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• The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

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  What Matters, Earth, Hardest

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.147, Penguin

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• What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

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  Pain, Waiting, Endurance

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• Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

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  Growth, Construction, Process

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• The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.

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  Laughter, Memories, Book

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• When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

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  Dream, Killing, Creation

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Mar 17, 2014

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• The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.

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  Powerful, Creativity, Hands

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• That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.

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  Moving, Soul, Growth

  Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We become what we pay attention to.

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  Attention, Pay, Pay Attention

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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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  Love, Letting Go, Mean

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• I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

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  God, Water, Darkness

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• You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

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  Believe, Self, Resources

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• You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

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  Song, Soul, Listening

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• You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

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  Ocean, Heart, Yelling

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Dec 14, 2013

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• I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

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  Eye, People, Shining

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.104, Penguin

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• God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

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  God, Lying, Dust

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• If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

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  People, Giving, Dull

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• People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

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  Order, Plain Language, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.277, Penguin

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• Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

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  Real, Home, Self

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• Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

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  Heart, People, World

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

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• Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.

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  Heart, Eye, Opportunity

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• In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

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  Skins, Skin And Bones, Stories

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• The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear what I’m about to tell you. I hope you’ll hear it all the way down to your toes. When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.

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  Growing Up, Eye, Hands

  Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

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  Looks, Failing

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.293, Penguin

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• Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

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  Mean, Embodiment

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