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I’m far from finishing the book, but I wanted to write my thoughts anyway. The book follows The Artist’s Way formula in order to help the reader/follower awaken their creative side and live a more creative journey through life. The core practices of
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“Somewhere in the process I started writing toward an answer to the question I wake up with every morning and go to bed with every night. How do I find hope on a dying planet, and if there is no hope to be found, how do I live in its absence? In what state of being? Respect? Tenderness? Unmitigated love? The rich and sometimes deeply clarifying dreamscape of vast inconsolable grief?”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“There is something so pleasingly pure about having a task to be accomplished and then accomplishing it. It is the exact opposite of writing, and pretty close to the opposite of teaching. In both writing and teaching, nothing is ever finished, only finished enough to let go.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“We are all dying, and because of us, so is the earth. That’s the most terrible, the most painful in my entire repertoire of self-torturing thoughts.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“I have spent most of my life outside, but for the last three years, I have been walking five miles a day, minimum, wherever I am, urban or rural, and can attest to the magnitude of the natural beauty that is left. Beauty worth seeing, worth singing, worth saving, whatever that word can mean now. There is beauty in a desert, even one that is expanding. There is beauty in the ocean, even one that is on the rise.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
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