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Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
by Natalie Goldberg

Published: 1994-02-01
Paperback : 256 pages
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 Writer, poet, and educator Natalie Goldberg is a household name for awakening and enriching the artistic lives and spirits of women across the world.

Observant and relentlessly honest, Long Quiet Highway is her reflection of the people, places, and experiences that helped her discover the transformational power of writing and the truth of the spiritual life. This book will resonate strongly with anyone interested in slowing down to notice the small moments and innate opportunities for inspiration and creativity around us all.

“Long Quiet Highway is the autobiography of a thoughtful woman who grounded herself in Eastern thought and Western art—a precise history of Natalie Goldberg’s adventures as a poet, teacher, and spiritual student—a book full of sentiment and anecdote.” —Allen Ginsburg

“[Goldberg] describes, in beautiful and simple prose . . . how her time with the Zen master Katagiri Koshi influenced her life and work. Many writers are indebted to her for pointing the way for them to open their hearts in their writing. In this book Goldberg opens her heart to us.”—Library Journal

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 “To love is to wake up. How do we wake up without becoming a marathon monk on Mount Hiei? Well, some of us will have to go to Mount Hiei. There is no other way. The rest of us must work as tellers in banks, drive our children to school, wash the kitchen floor, buy groceries. The marathon monks go all the way to the edge of death, so they may come back and be alive, so they can know gratitude for this moment. We need to wake up when we buy groceries, push the cart down the aisle, see labels, count out change, feel our step on the floor tile. Every moment is enormous, and it is all we have . . .

Our life is the path of learning, to wake up before we die. This book is about that.”—Natalie Goldberg on Long Quiet Highway

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