Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kiddis a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
becoming alive awake
There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
spiritual art stopping
Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
writing taste pomegranates
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.
matter gods-beauty
Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
eye heart opportunity
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.
world this-world day-life
The day life turned into nothing this world could fix,
fashion pain heart
To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
voice soul authority
My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
acceptance knowing matter
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.
spiritual important stopping
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
special-you earth want
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
nice dark giving
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.
butterfly long religion
When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.
dream killing creation
When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.