August

compassion

empathy

mother

occupation / innovator as

novelist

nationality

American

is a month that turns into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzle.

The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.

is an attitude which, once awoken in us, allows us to find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it is 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 another's eyes or heart.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's 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 another's eyes or heart. Sue Monk Kidd

's deepest impulse was to nurture, to simply dwell, to be in herself; it has nothing to do with ambition and achievement in the world.

Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster whirling. Her deepest impulse was to nurture, to simply dwell; it had nothing to do with ambition and achievement in the world...How had I come to believe that my world of questing and writing was more valuable than her dwelling and domestic artistry?...I wanted to go out and do things--write books, speak out. I've been driven by that. I don't know how to rest in myself very well, how to be content staying put. But Mother knows how to BE at home--and really, to be in herself. It's actually very beautiful what she does...I think part of me just longs for the way Mother experiences home.

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Sue Monk Kidd