All Natalie Goldberg Quotes
- Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind. Important
- Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Believe
- Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall… Appearance
- All of us can create if we allow ourselves to. All
- Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Breath
- Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary.… Addiction
- We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our… Air
- Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we… Another Place
- That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to… Attention
- This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want… Aim
- Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. Aching
- Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps. Actually Every
- One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. Inspirational
- Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall… Applesauce
- Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart. Connected
- It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give… Feasibility
- I am free to write the worst junk in the world. Free
- We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts… Accepting
- First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought,… Censor
- There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin,… Actually Every