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We don't choose what's going to wake us up.

Dani Shapiro

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Dani Shapiro
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 10
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New York City
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We are tyrannized by our options.
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I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.
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The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.
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I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.
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You can start your day over anytime.
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I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
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I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
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Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
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If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.
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