This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're…

Anne Lamott
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This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds. ✨ Anne Lamott (2000). Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Anchor
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