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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment. As we read we enter the author's mind and follow it like a train on its tracks. If the author derails--gets lost--so do we. But if she is alive, steaming along in her full power, we chug along with her deep into pleasure country. The writer is concentrating--she has been practicing a lot--and we get the benefit. Mind reflects mind. If we read someone who is awake, it helps to wake us up.

-Natalie Goldberg