Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

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.

In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.