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
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
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
“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
“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
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
Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books.… — Natalie Goldberg Attention Copy Share Image
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
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… — Natalie Goldberg Beginning Copy Share Image
Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I… — Natalie Goldberg Body 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… — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of… — Natalie Goldberg Practice Copy Share Image
I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how… — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality.… — Natalie Goldberg 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
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
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
Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things… — 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,… — Natalie Goldberg Artist Copy Share Image
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Good sex 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 Hope Copy Share Image
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. — Natalie Goldberg Absurdity 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
A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. — Natalie Goldberg Alive Copy Share Image
We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close. — 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
We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do. — Natalie Goldberg 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
“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
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
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
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. — Natalie Goldberg Cancer 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
I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be… — Natalie Goldberg Earth Copy Share Image
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world. — Natalie Goldberg Heart Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Books Copy Share Image
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
