The Way of the Fearless Writer: Mindful Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life
by Beth Kempton
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The Way of the Fearless Writer: Mindful Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life
When you wake in the night and the world is still, pay attention. When the wind shows its presence by rustling leaves, pay attention. When you take a slow deep breath and feel the beating of your own heart, pay attention. These quiet moments are secret ways in.
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It was only when I was out walking one day that I realized the significance of all of this. Without realizing it I had metaphorically passed through three sacred gates collectively known in Buddhism as the Three Gates of Liberation: Muganmon (無願門) The Gate of Desirelessness, Musōmon (無相門) The Gate of Formlessness, and Kūmon (空門) The Gate of Emptine
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When we engage with our breath and our bodies before we write and as we write, the experience of writing is elevated. We can retreat from the chatter of busy mind and reach into the depths of wild mind, shifting our stuck energy and transmitting a sense of aliveness into our words.
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It is in letting go of most of our words that we get to the few that really matter.
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If you are struggling to find time to write, it may be because you aren’t clear on why you want to write.
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back. You will discover that being a fearless writer has little to do with validation and accolades as we are conditioned to believe. Rather, it is about ritual, dedication, and commitment, developing an acute awareness of beauty, dancing with inspiration, listening to the world outside yourself, and going deep within.
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Writing is both sacred and ordinary if ordinary means part of our day-to-day life, and something that anyone can do without any particular training, or money or experience. Yet when we make it sacred in the simplest of ways, by giving it our full attention, we send ourselves an important message about its place in our lives.
from The Way of the Fearless Writer: Mindful Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life by Beth Kempton
When you wake in the night and the world is still, pay attention. When the wind shows its presence by rustling leaves, pay attention. When you take a slow deep breath and feel the beating of your own heart, pay attention. These quiet moments are secret ways in.
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To write in service of the writing, not the ego, is a radical act. What if we gathered up all the energy we usually spend worrying about what other people think and poured it into our writing? What if we really lived our lives, moment to moment, and wrote about that?
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be enough for now? When we do this we realize that everything we need is already here. We do not need any kind of external validation or material success in order to write, or keep writing. When we focus on writing as a sacred act, we stop trying to control what happens. A writing life stops being something we dream about and becomes something we a
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