Spiritual Journeys Summer Book Group

Stories can awaken insight, enlighten mind and quicken spirit. In this small group, we will read Long Quiet Highway: Waking up in America by Natalie Goldberg. Both the chosen book and the group sessions are designed to engage the head and the heart, open us to magic and possibility, awaken wonder and personal transformation.

Long Quiet Highway is a memoire of sorts, recounting moments in Natalie Goldberg's life "from the high school classroom where she first listened to the rain, to her fifteen years as a student of Zen Buddhism. Natalie Goldberg captures both the moments of illumination and the long discipline of daily practice, the hilarity of error and the grief of our resistance to change."

Alan Ginsberg says, “Long Quiet Highway is the autobiography of a thoughtful woman who grounded herself in Eastern thought and Western art– a precise history of Natalie Goldberg’s adventures as a poet, teacher,…