Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with. — Natalie Goldberg Great love Copy Share Image
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. — Natalie Goldberg Breath Copy Share Image
So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day. — Natalie Goldberg Bears Copy Share Image
“My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.” — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We learn writing by doing it. That simple. We don’t learn by going outside ourselves to authorities we think know about it.” — Natalie Goldberg Education Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a… — Natalie Goldberg Advantage Copy Share Image
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work. — Natalie Goldberg Books Copy Share Image
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of… — Natalie Goldberg Being Copy Share Image
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every… — Natalie Goldberg Assurance Copy Share Image
I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around."… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts,… — Natalie Goldberg Connections Copy Share Image
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even… — Natalie Goldberg Acceptance Copy Share Image
Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not… — Natalie Goldberg Change Copy Share Image
Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make… — Natalie Goldberg Alive Copy Share Image
“We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great… — Natalie Goldberg Healing Copy Share Image
That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of… — Natalie Goldberg Art Copy Share Image
“I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always… — Natalie Goldberg Writer Copy Share Image
“...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate… — Natalie Goldberg Abstract Copy Share Image
“As writers we are always seeking support. First we should notice that we are already supported every moment. There is the earth… — Natalie Goldberg Every moment Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We heard about people who go back to their roots. That is good, but don't get stuck in the root. There is… — Natalie Goldberg First place Copy Share Image
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience. — Natalie Goldberg Cancer Copy Share Image
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. — Natalie Goldberg Appreciation Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
