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J. Douglas Bottorff

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J. Douglas Bottorff If I'm working on a book, I find it helpful to go back and edit things I've already written. This will often start the writing flow again. If I'm work…moreIf I'm working on a book, I find it helpful to go back and edit things I've already written. This will often start the writing flow again. If I'm working on a blog, which I try to do daily, I find that if I start on a subject that is a struggle, it's often because there is a better subject that comes easier. A piece that begins with a struggle (block) often opens if I just keep going. If it's too much of a struggle, I'll drop writing for that morning and do something else. Writing is an option and it needs to be inspiring and creative. Otherwise, it becomes an unproductive labor.(less)

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J. Douglas Bottorff Writing challenges me to clarify my thinking on a given subject. Most of us get inspiration and think, I could write a book about that. If you actuall…moreWriting challenges me to clarify my thinking on a given subject. Most of us get inspiration and think, I could write a book about that. If you actually undertake the task of writing "a book about that" you discover that the inspiration is merely the tip of the iceberg, that there is always much more to that inspiration than you thought. Writing also forces you to give practical context to an inspiration in ways that can be useful to others. Inspiration is the exciting notion that the world really is round. Writing can take us around the world in a way that validates the inspiration. (less)

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	A Practical Guide to Meditation and Prayer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The purpose of meditation is not so much changing what we see as changing the way we see it.”
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“As long as you hold an improved self-image as a future possibility, you simultaneously hold the image of yourself as inadequate and incomplete. You are, in effect, a house divided.”
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