Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place... — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My mind kept thinking its harsh thinky thoughts, but I would distract myself from them gently and say, 'Those are not the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...I had to learn new skills. One was to no longer pretend not to see what was going on. ... I was… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“During congregational silences, in meditation rooms or halls, in prison cells and meeting rooms, in silent confession at church, all these screwed-up… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“There is ecstasy in paying attention... Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
