I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time… — 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
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. — 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
“...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.” — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass… — 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 Copy Share Image
“It is our hope that writing releases us. Instead maybe it deepens the echo. We call out to our past and the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice. — 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
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl,… — 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
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
I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When… — 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
