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  <title><![CDATA[Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America]]></title>
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  <default-description>The author of &lt;i&gt;Writing Down the Bones &lt;/i&gt;recounts her journey   awakening from the profound sleep of a suburban childhood, describing   her fifteen years as a student of Zen Buddhism, her writing, and   resistance to change. Reprint.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know this story from another angle because I discovered <em>Writing Down the Bones</em> as a freshman in college. <em>Bones</em> gave me a writing practice and I used it when I taught high school, college, and ran writing groups. So getting to read <em>Long Quiet Highway</em> about how Goldberg created her method was utterl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56144983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps my favorite memoir. Ever. <br/><br/>As a writer, and fellow New Mexican (by &quot;adoption&quot;), I fell in love with Goldberg's books when I was a teenager, still living in Albuquerque. This is the book that piqued my interest in Buddhism. It is a wonderful portrait of both Natalie's lif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67189265">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Natalie Goldberg's moving memoir of her discovery of Zen Buddhism is quiet, funny, touching, and illuminative of the draw of meditation, and seeking the world to find oneself. This was a life-changing book for me because I found it as I was (finding myself - smile -), learning to meditate for the fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46523216">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I have mentioned before, I usually read this book every year, and this year the book ringed different than it did last year.  The book taught me more about patience, writing regardless, and letting go of the ego.  Like the books of Eckhart Tolle, Natalie's memoir provides simple approaches to lif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46338208">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had heard about Natalie's books in meditation circles.  She writes cleanly, directly, delightfully.  The story is that of a Brooklyn Jew, feminist, hippie, poet who turns to the dharma and dedicates much of her life to studying with Katagiri Roshi, an old-school Japanese Zen teacher in Minnesota. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7417154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe this is, by far, Nat's best book. I love the structure (she starts with her teachers and leads us gently to Katagiri Roshi). And along the way we get to learn about writing, her life in New Mexico and lots of other good stuff too, especially about how writing practice evolved. <em>Writing Down...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56775744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read this book in a long time. Starting at age 20, I read it each Summer for several years in a row. ...Natalie Goldberg is a writer, and she writes about writing. This book is basically her autobiography. She is a creative woman in search of herself, and is willing to go any route to disc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21280165">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book awfully ego centered.  I believe that we need to wake up in America-but I don't think we wake up by sitting and being self centered.  I have no problem with zen buddhism.  I admire people who meditate-but the life she recommends I don't believe is the only or the best path to bei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7999875">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Goldberg’s memoir about her teachers, writing, and her path to Zen was so engaging I read it in one sitting.  In it she states her view of writing as a practice like Zen that you do in whatever mindset you are in, as a practice, without concern for the results.    ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend gave me this book some years ago and it was such a lovely, pleasurable reading experience about one woman's journey to a more peaceful, productive, meaningul life. It might help that she is a writer and teacher, something I could relate to! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book. It's about being a spiritual person in America and how to be Buddhist in a modern context. Natalie is a great writer and is very relateable. I think it's not the best book on Zen out there but is a good fast read. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I try to read at least once a year. And I always cry and am always inspired by it.  It hits me on so many levels, but primarily it is about being Awake and really Present in one's life.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;To write i had to have my fist deep in my life- in my pain, my joy, my culture, my generation. I couldn't protect myself from money, or cars, or politics. Writing is the willingness to see.&quot; (pp40)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favorites...ever. It's that good. Yes, it is mostly about Natalie's journey in search of herself which she happens to find in Zen Buddhism. But her story can resonate with anyone who has ever struggled to find out who they really are or who they might want to be. <br/><br/>I rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19785933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would put this book into a list of my top 3 favorite books ever.  I've read it twice, which I rarely do.  As a lifelong Minnesotan, I am most impressed by Natalie Goldberg's depiction of Minnesota (where she spent her early 30s)...it is DEAD ON, the good and the bad of it.  There is none of the sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10701861">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Goldberg's a funny one; I bet more people have read her writings about her writing process than her actual writing (fiction, short stories, etc.). This one is much more memoirish; a long conversation about her Buddhist practices and her relationship with Katagiri Roshi. The writing is lovely, and it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35838689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An old favorite, revisited. Gentle memoir of feeling one's way through both writing and Buddhism. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really moving memoir/autobiography.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really enjoy natalie goldberg, although reading all of her stuff means a bit of repetition.  (things worthy of reading/hearing multiple times, so i don't mind.)  i give his book 3 stars because the beginning and end of this book were 3, but the middle was 2 for me.  i believe that to be a reflecti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31732686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that is remarkable if found at the right moment in a person's life. Natalie Goldberg tells a stunningly honest story of her own indecisiveness about men, relationships, life direction. She shares her mistakes and failures, and finds her strength in something (I won't tell ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18953406">more...</a>]]></body>
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