Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

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

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

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.

[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.