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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Albert Flynn DeSilver: Awakening Through Writing: The Space Between the Words

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Albert Flynn DeSilver is an author, poet, and leader of writing workshops held worldwide. In addition to work appearing in dozens of literary journals, he has published the books Beamish Boy, Letters to Easy Street, and Walking Tooth and Cloud. With Sounds True, Albert has released the new book Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Albert about the difference between writing as a creative endeavor and writing as a gateway to spiritual inquiry. They talk about the exploration of difficult subjects such as failure and death through writing, and how those deep inquiries can help open us to the present moment. Finally, Albert comments on the cultivation of discipline and how the concept of time is one that we create for ourselves. (57 minutes)

Transcript

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com, you can find hundreds of downloadable audio learning programs,

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plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.

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At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves

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as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

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offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Albert Flynn

0:44.4

de Silver. Albert is an internationally published poet, memoirist, novelist,

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speaker, and workshop leader.

0:53.0

He served as Marin County's first poet laureate from 2008 to 2010,

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and his work has appeared in more than a hundred literary journals worldwide.

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He's the author of the book, Beamish Boy, a memoir,

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Letters to Early Street, and Walking Tooth and Cloud.

1:15.0

With sounds true, Albert Flynn-to-Silver has written a new book called

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Writing as a path to awakening,

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a year to becoming an excellent writer

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and living an awakened life,

1:29.2

where he invites the reader on a year long journey

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of growth and discovery to enhance writing through

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the practice of meditation while using the creative process to accelerate spiritual evolution.

1:43.0

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Albert and I spoke about the difference

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between the creative pursuit of writing and is what Albert calls an inside job, and Albert's discovery that time is something you create.

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