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The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of some very magical words. It's a gift when someone can listen and be quiet and not interrupt.
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If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
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Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.
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There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.
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You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. Can't talk, I'm writing today.
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You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.
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I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.
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As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal.
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One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, When you're in a hurry, go slower. That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.
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But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
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Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.
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By community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.
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I want to write an essay called Fear of Mexico, because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
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Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.
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I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.
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The ego's blocking the light from coming.
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