Write as if your parents are dead. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird:…

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Write as if your parents are dead. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.199, Anchor
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.117, Anchor
There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, Why on our hearts, and not in them? The … ▶
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.112, Anchor
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.104, Anchor

Write as if your parents are dead. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.199, Anchor

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