Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

As writers we need to crack open language.