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“How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.”

Quote by Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman, born on April 2, 1945, is an American poet known for her strong personal style and her focus on social and political issues. She is a prominent figure in the Beat Generation and the post-Beat Generation, and her poetry blends the form of free verse with radical political stances. more

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“There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.”

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“If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.”

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“We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.”

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“I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.”

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“I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There's an elegant quality to the wild mind.”

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“I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.”

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“I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.”

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