“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
~Anais Nin

“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Sit, be still, let yourself become quiet, and follow your breath. Read a paragraph from something you study and let yourself steep in it."

"One way to sneak the Soul in past the Ego is through compassion."

~ from Baba Ram Dass (BabaRamDass @twitter)

Body impermanent like spring mist;
Mind insubstantial like empty sky;
Thoughts unestablished like breezes in space.
Think about these three points over and over.

~Godrakpa (1170-1249)

from Daily Zen

You should begin to build up confidence
and joy in your own richness.
That richness is the essence of generosity.
It is the sense of resourcefulness,
that you can deal with whatever is
around you and not feel poverty-stricken.

~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987)

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
--William Osler

 "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
~Plutarch

"Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise."
~ Novalis

"[W]riters are at their least pretty, perhaps, when they are actually writing. Eyes redden, caffeine levels rise like geysers, fingernails go missing without trace. Given the amount of hair-tearing that goes on, it should be statistically provable that 85 percent of poets, say, are completely bald and that a formal meeting of the creative writing ( Read more... )

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

In honor of NaNoWriMo, Day 3 (current word count: 3883):

"There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."  ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."  ~Anaïs Nin

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken ( Read more... )