The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work..

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do..

Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of im….

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different..

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it..

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever..

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrive….

We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with….

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a pea….

Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’….

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that ca….

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all..

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted..

A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle, the total golden tender presence of God ….

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college..

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God..

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are..

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past..

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God..

Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it..

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breath….