"Long Quiet Highway"

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Natalie Goldberg's "Long Quiet Highway" discusses the author's own merging of her Jewish heritage with Zen Buddhism in a bid to find the time and serenity to dedicate herself to writing. The paper discusses the five parts of this book, each corresponding to a different stage of Goldberg's development and her life.

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"The third section addresses her relationship with Zen Buddhism and the Zen master, along with major changes in her life such as marriage and moving away from New York to Minnesota. She becomes frustrated as her marriage fails and finds it harder and harder to achieve the state of Zen she seeks. At the same time, she becomes more concerned about how she may be betraying he Jewish heritage."

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