I'm a University Lecturer in English and the author of a novel, The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage 2002). My life is summed up by Rumi, who said: "My story gets told in various ways: a romance, a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy." Rumi's quote is the epigraph to Hurricanes. The purpose of this journal is to explore creativity and the writing life.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
from Buddha's Little Instruction Book
by Jack Kornfield:
Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
Good advice for lonely days. Teagrapple
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When I learned the compassion mantra, another learner, more advanced than me, said,"First you must have compassion for yourself".
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