Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
Natalie Goldberg
solitude writing loneliness
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
writing soul
I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
writing self-discovery
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mindThe mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial.
writing
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway.. Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.
writing ego enlightenment process zen
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing. (p.90)
I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.
dreams silliness
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
life living enjoyment dying
Writing is the act of discovery.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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