Sue Monk Kidd
Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.Collection: Ocean
How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.Collection: Heart
To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Powerful
Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.Collection: Life
Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.Collection: Lying
Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.Collection: Heart
I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.Collection: Thinking
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.Collection: Spiritual
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.Collection: Ocean
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.Collection: Peculiar
I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.Collection: Thinking
When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.Collection: Butterfly