Natalie Goldberg Quotes (16 Quotes)

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

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. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

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 write.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

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, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Read books. They are good for us.

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, we wonder how we ever did it before.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

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 in love, drop a jar of applesauce.