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Karen Maezen Miller
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Taizan Maezumi Roshi, my daughter Georgia and my mother
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A taste of what I wrote this morning for my next book Paradise in Plain Sight, coming in the spring from New World Library.
I forgot the way I had come. —Kanzan
The buds appear in early winter and bloom through early spring. Theirs is the perfume of youth, the scent of morning. They number in the thousands, perfect star-shaped flowers caressed by eager breezes until nearly all of them loosen and...
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Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
— published 2006 — 2 editions |
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Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
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The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
by Shari MacDonald Strong (Goodreads Author) , Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner , Judith Stadtman Tucker — published 2008 — 3 editions |
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| Any book that engages me so totally has my highest regard. This is the kind of science fiction I've been waiting for: that doesn't read like fiction or seem like science. A miraculous view of the end of life as we know it, made imminently plausible a...more | |
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| Katrina's writing is a ray of light, a song of love. She illuminates our most difficult passages. Highly recommended for anyone who realizes that life is always just beginning, especially when it seems over and done. | |
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| We writers are a rather odd lot, is the moral of the tale. Out of the wretched mess of life, mastery comes. So there is comfort this communion with a rarity. | |
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| Only if you submit your will can you appreciate the heart of Thomas Cromwell, for whom I had scant knowledge and no interest until this book. Others have said that the pages are hard to plow through, but that is only until you fall under the spell. B...more | |
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| I suspect one day I'll read a book that I love more than this, but for now, it holds my heart. It will change you, even before you finish. I received it as an audio book from a wise and generous reader, and was immersed in Jim Broadbent's astonishing...more | |
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| Can you have too much Alice Munro? Even though some of these stories jarred my memory (I'd read them previously in the New Yorker), they are all worth another go, because in my book, happiness is too much Munro. | |
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| Exhausting, unbelievable, and unbroken. A total immersion in suffering. This will cure you of petty complaints and offenses. | |
“You don't have to wait for happiness, because there's no time but now to be happy. You don't have to go somewhere else, because there's no place but here to find it. You don't have to do something else, because there's nothing more to it. You don't have to get something else, because everything you already have is enough. You just have to be happy. ...”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
― Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
“Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
― Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
“Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
― Karen Maezen Miller, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
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