I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
