Glennon Doyle

I don't feel to me like my sadness or my anger or my

bafflement at what is going on is a shadow I feel like it's proof of the beauty inside me because it's like if there's something happening in the outer world and you're rejecting that that is because you have an inner vision of something truer and more beautiful if you're not rejecting that that's because that's that's okay with you that's the vision so for me that this is why sometimes artists have such a

Deep sadness.

You know, people are always like, why are artists always addicts?

Which, all my friends are artists, and I can confirm that is true.

But there's a correlation of numbing sadness, right?

It's because there's a great sadness.

And I think sometimes the sadness is the distance between the inner vision and the outer world.

The greater the distance is between those two things, the greater the ache, the greater the sadness, the greater the anger.

I don't want to be around anyone right now who's not pissed off and sad.

They scare the crap out of me.

I want to be with the brokenhearted because I just know right away that those people have an inner vision that is aligned with mine, and that is what's causing the brokenheartedness.

And I also think we shouldn't hide it from each other.

I mean, I just had an experience where our oldest just graduated from college, but he was home over break his senior year.

And I had been struggling very much to, like, have my shit together each day and be, like, vertical.

I told myself right before he got home that I was going to tighten it up.

Okay, because he's coming home and he needs joy and he needs, he'd been through a lot at school and he needs, you know, a mom who's together and whatever.

So he came home and I was like, sunshine.

I was sunshine each day.

I was music on.