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"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person." (Anaïs Nin)

The diary is the genre of the present moment. On the continuum of time between past and future, the present moment is the point of power from which you can influence the meaning and direction of your life. The present moment contains all you have experienced, felt, and thought in your lifetime /…/. It also contains the seeds of all you are to become. The present moment is the portal to past and future/…/.

I just desperately need to read something that is (a) mindless and (b) not Anne Lamott. My fiction e-reader is locked away and I can't face the thought of trying to get into a new non-fiction read at midnight so here we are

‘Death ends a life, not a relationship. Through dialogues we can keep alive the spirit of the other that now dwells within us as the result of love.’

Ira Progoff: The stepping-stones of your life

‘Write fast, write everything, include everything, write from your feelings, write from your body, accept whatever comes.’

‘New Diary - that is a personal book in which creativity, play, and self-therapy interweave, foster, and complement each other.’