From Anne Lamott’s Dusk, Night, Dawn (2021)
- If you are lucky, the Gift of Desperation gives you the insight that you’re in no position to dicker over how or by whom your sorry ass is going to be saved.
- I prayed, “God, give me all I can stand, but be aware I can’t stand much yet because I’m so pissed off.”
- All my sober friends know that any of us alcoholics worth our salt would betray our best friends for the sake of our addiction.
- That many of my forgiven are dead should not detract from the heroic and inspiring work it took for me to forgive them.
- Laughter is a holy and subversive battery charge.
- We know one overarching truth: that all things are covered by the Serenity Prayer
- Fear is not facts. We have seen life self-correct again and again.
- To judge is human, and the mystery of faith is that you are forgiven for judging even before you judge.
- The closed heart of judgment destroys your life, so that’s not ideal.
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- If you exhaust yourself with Recovery, you’ll have less energy to put into worry.
- How people treat you is their Karma. How you react is yours.