Nature Quotes by Natalie Goldberg

8 Nature quotes by Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg treats nature as a living classroom, inviting readers to pause and listen. Her brief set of musings encourages a mindful presence, turning ordinary scenes into opportunities for creative awareness.

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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything…

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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the…

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I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be…

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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow…

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Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But…

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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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