“Writing is hard work (Lewis Carroll’s school in Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland taught reeling and writhing), and there is no point in fooling ourselves into believing that it is all a mater of inspiration. Many of the books that seem, as we read them, to flow effortlessly were in fact the product of innumerable revisions. [...]
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Writing is Hard Work
September 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Buddhism, Meditation, Quotes, Writing and Meditation
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The Parable of the Burning House
January 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Buddhism, Meditation, Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing and Meditation
“There was an old man, who was wealthy and owned a ramshackle dilapidated house with but one door. When he was outside the house one day, he saw that it was on fire. He had five, ten or twenty children, who were playing in the house. He did not know what to do. If he [...]
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Mary Pipher on Writing and Meditation
October 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Meditation, Quotes, Writing and Meditation
“Both writing and meditation are ways to expand and enrich time. In meditation, we learn to examine our thoughts and feelings from a new perspective, to watch the river of our consciousness flow by, observing it but not attaching ourselves to it. We train ourselves to have a meta-consciousness that observes ourselves observing, and that [...]
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Jack Kornfield on the Wisdom of the Heart
April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Meditation, Quotes, Writing and Meditation
“The wisdom of the heart can be found in any circumstance, on any planet, round or square. It arises not through knowledge or images of perfection or by comparison and judgment, but by seeing with the eyes of wisdom and the heart of loving attention, by touching with compassion all that exists in our world.” [...]
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