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
people forgiving bees
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
what-matters earth hardest
The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.
long mind body
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
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.
spiritual art stopping
Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
song soul listening
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.
powerful creativity hands
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.
voice soul authority
My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
sadness night space
It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.
fashion pain heart
To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
dream world wake-up
What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.
world this-world day-life
The day life turned into nothing this world could fix,
becoming alive awake
There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.