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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.Sue Monk Kidd
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I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at least, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.Sue Monk Kidd
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...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.Sue Monk Kidd
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There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough.Sue Monk Kidd
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There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.Sue Monk Kidd
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Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.Sue Monk Kidd
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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave homeSue Monk Kidd
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You're looking for a reason, " she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.Sue Monk Kidd
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I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.Sue Monk Kidd