Natalie Goldberg Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.
I think talent is like a water table under the earth - you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.
Don't let yourself be thrown away ... Continue on no matter what ... Continue to make a positive effort for the good.
And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
14294Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself and first thoughts are present.
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
And though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.
If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.
A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.
Write about "leaving." Approach it any way you want. Write about your divorce, leaving the house this morning, or a friend dying.
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a topic from that list and begin.
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.
Keep your hand moving. (Don't pause to reread the line you have just written. That's stalling and trying to get control of what you're saying.)
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along - consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about.
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.