#42

A long time ago I read Jack Kerouac's essential for prose. Four of them, in particular, have provided me with heart for the path:

Accept loss forever

Be submissive to everything, open, listening

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge

Be in love with your life

Believe me, you, too, can find yourself inside the huge terrain of writing. No one is so odd as to be left out.

Now, please, go. Write your asses off.

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones