Writing Down the Bones

My 9 highlights

• Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

• To learn to communicate beyond ourselves we have to let go of our immediate expression and go deeper, honor the signifcance of details, touch things as they are.

• I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time to work at my real work.

• I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

• That’s the great value of art—making the ordinary extraordinary. We awaken ourselves to the life we are living.

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• We don’t need to now have our egos manipulate our words to sound better or the way we want to sound: perfect, happy, on top of everything.

• When you know a place well, it’s a place. You might love it deeply, but it’s a place that has good and bad things. But having this place gives you a freedom to go anyplace and appreciate and love other places.

• Suddenly I didn’t know what the book was about; it didn’t have anything to do with my life. It wouldn’t find me a lover or brush my teeth in the morning.