To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps. — Natalie Goldberg 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
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out 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
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. — 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 the branch,… — 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 like drinking… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my… — 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 time to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy, and the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
