“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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Six-Word Memoir
October 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Writing and Meditation
This past weekend (October 8-10) my coteacher, Rikki Asher, and I offered our annual Memoir as Buddhist Practice workshop at Omega Institute in New York state’s gorgeous Hudson Valley.
In one of our exercises, we asked people to write a six-word memoir, fashioned after the famed book, Six-Word Memoirs, edited by Smith Magazine. Here are a [...]
Memoir as Buddhist Practice Workshop October 8-10, 2010
October 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Writing and Meditation
Group photo of our Memoir as Buddhist Practice workshop this weekend. Great people, excellent work, new friendships.
Natalie Goldberg on Writing and Awareness
October 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Quotes, Writing and Meditation
“In order to write we must have an awareness of who we are—and who we aren’t. If you don’t know either, writing can help teach it.” –Natalie Goldberg, An Old Friend From Far Away
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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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Making Yourself Transparent
August 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized, Writing and Meditation
In memoir we want to be doing the kind of writing that comes from our very being, our heart. Writing and meditation work in tandem to help us see into and express our hearts with all its victories and failures. When we write from our heart our writing becomes richer, more true, and more transparent. [...]
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Welcome
May 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Writing and Meditation
Welcome to Writingandmeditation.com. This is a new blog devoted to the exploration of the complementary practices of writing and meditation as it is relates to our psychological development and spiritual journey.
Writing helps us think. When we meditate we can’t help but think. And what we think about when we write and when we meditate, combined [...]
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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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