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Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “The miracle is not to walk on water but on the earth. – Thich Nhat Hanh.”

151. “The miracle is not to walk on water but on the earth. – Thich Nhat Hanh.”

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Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “Part of my ongoing priesthood is to find the bridges between my faith and the faiths of other people, so that those of us who draw water from wells on different sides of the river can still get together from time to time, making the whole area safer for our children.”

152. “Part of my ongoing priesthood is to find the bridges between my faith and the faiths of other people, so that those of us who draw water from wells on different sides of the river can still get together from time to time, making the whole area safer for our children.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. The suffering comes from our reluctance to learn to walk in the dark.”

153. “The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. The suffering comes from our reluctance to learn to walk in the dark.”

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Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.”

154. “I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.”

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Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going? Isn’t there a chance of being surprised by what happens next? Better than that, what if I could learn how to stay in the present instead of letting my anxieties run on fast-forward?”

155. “What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going? Isn’t there a chance of being surprised by what happens next? Better than that, what if I could learn how to stay in the present instead of letting my anxieties run on fast-forward?”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “If I trust what I see on my phone more than what I see out my window, what does it mean to believe that the real world is not where I live?”

156. “If I trust what I see on my phone more than what I see out my window, what does it mean to believe that the real world is not where I live?”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “No one’s spiritual practice is exactly like anyone else’s. Life meets each of us where we need to be met, leading us to the doors with our names on them. Yet because we are human, we almost never go where no one has gone before.”

157. “No one’s spiritual practice is exactly like anyone else’s. Life meets each of us where we need to be met, leading us to the doors with our names on them. Yet because we are human, we almost never go where no one has gone before.”

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Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “The faith that had sustained them through their middle years had gotten as tight as their old clothes. Their views of God, scripture, the church, and the world were all under renovation.”

158. “The faith that had sustained them through their middle years had gotten as tight as their old clothes. Their views of God, scripture, the church, and the world were all under renovation.”

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Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “I no longer call such tasks “housework”. I call them the “domestic arts,” paying attention to all the ways they return me to my senses.”

159. “I no longer call such tasks “housework”. I call them the “domestic arts,” paying attention to all the ways they return me to my senses.”

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Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “I and everything I love have come forth from the furnace of the stars by a process so full of unfathomable, life-giving grace that my earlier worrying strikes me as cheap.”

160. “I and everything I love have come forth from the furnace of the stars by a process so full of unfathomable, life-giving grace that my earlier worrying strikes me as cheap.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers.”

161. “God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers.”

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Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “While those who are frightened by the primal energy of dark emotions try to avoid them, becoming more and more cut off from the world at large, those who are willing to wrestle with angels break out of their isolation by dirtying their hands with the emotions that rattle them most.”

162. “While those who are frightened by the primal energy of dark emotions try to avoid them, becoming more and more cut off from the world at large, those who are willing to wrestle with angels break out of their isolation by dirtying their hands with the emotions that rattle them most.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “An unguarded face is a deep well; you don’t go there casually, without ropes or lamps.”

163. “An unguarded face is a deep well; you don’t go there casually, without ropes or lamps.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor Quote: “I had refused the body and blood of Christ because it was painful to the person beside me. I had chosen to abstain with him rather than to participate without him. Though I knew full well that he did not expect that of me – that it was possible for a full-fledged Christian and a full-fledged Jew to stand together in their difference – at that moment I did not want to celebrate any Communion that did not include him.”

164. “I had refused the body and blood of Christ because it was painful to the person beside me. I had chosen to abstain with him rather than to participate without him. Though I knew full well that he did not expect that of me – that it was possible for a full-fledged Christian and a full-fledged Jew to stand together in their difference – at that moment I did not want to celebrate any Communion that did not include him.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

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