You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.
Sue Monk KiddRead
In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects a paradoxical attachment to personal pain and struggle, suggesting that they can provide a sense of identity and sympathy.
In this quote, Sue Monk Kidd expresses a complex relationship with her own suffering, indicating that her collection of hurts and wounds has given her a unique sense of identity and sympathy from others. It highlights the human tendency to sometimes cling to our ailments or misfortunes for the validation and attention they can bring, exposing the intricacies of how we relate our struggles to our sense of self-worth and exceptionality.
Themes
PainIdentitySympathyStruggleExceptional
In practice
Example use cases
During a therapy session, one might say, 'As Sue Monk Kidd reflected, sometimes our wounds give us a sense of sympathy from others.'
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I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
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I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.
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Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.
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Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.
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