Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I believe in the goodness of imagination.

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  Believe, Imagination, Goodness

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.300, Penguin

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

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  Believe, Self, Resources

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• It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

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  Mess

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.211, Penguin

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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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• I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

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  Shining, Fabric, World

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.63, Penguin

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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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• Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

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  Ocean, Home, Needs

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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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• 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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• It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

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  Peculiar, Goes On, World

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Dec 04, 2013

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• I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

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  Thinking, I Can

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• If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

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  Two, Soul, Doe

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• We become what we pay attention to.

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  Attention, Pay, Pay Attention

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• some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

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  Heart, What Matters, Color

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• We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

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  Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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