It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.
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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.Natalie Goldberg
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
Natalie Goldberg
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.
Natalie Goldberg
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
Natalie Goldberg
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.
Natalie Goldberg
Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
Natalie Goldberg
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