Circumstances Quote by Natalie Goldberg

“Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.”

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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 meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are…

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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 out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over…

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Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

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“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like the land they come from, filled with nine aunties, people named Bubba. There is something…

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