Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.” — Natalie Goldberg Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories. — Natalie Goldberg Books Copy Share Image
Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Don't let yourself be thrown away…Continue on no matter what…Continue to make a positive effort for the good. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams,… — Natalie Goldberg Acceptance Copy Share Image
“If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. By practice,… — Natalie Goldberg Life Copy Share Image
Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you… — Natalie Goldberg Dream Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next… — Natalie Goldberg Cancer Copy Share Image
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything… — Natalie Goldberg Earth Copy Share Image
The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's… — Natalie Goldberg Ashamed Copy Share Image
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. — Natalie Goldberg Chaos Copy Share Image
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. — Natalie Goldberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things… — Natalie Goldberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing… — Natalie Goldberg Feasibility Copy Share Image
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us. — Natalie Goldberg Concert Copy Share Image
If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't… — Natalie Goldberg Angel Copy Share Image
Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“If every time you sat down, you expected something great, writing would always be a great disappointment. Plus that expectation would also… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after… — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. — Natalie Goldberg Fear Copy Share Image
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction. — Natalie Goldberg American society Copy Share Image
We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. — Natalie Goldberg Beginning Copy Share Image
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on… — Natalie Goldberg Fool Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting… — Natalie Goldberg Body Copy Share Image
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at… — Natalie Goldberg More time Copy Share Image
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else. — Natalie Goldberg Business Copy Share Image
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness. — Natalie Goldberg Energy Copy Share Image
