Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we ha…

Natalie Goldberg
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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth. ✨ Natalie Goldberg (2016). Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, p.55, Shambhala Publications
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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth. ✨ Natalie Goldberg (2016). Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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