Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldbergis an American popular New Age author and speaker She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
writing mind cracks
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
writing discovery mind
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.
writing thinking mind
The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.
greatness views mind
Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.
writing mind taste
When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind
writing thinking mind
The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.
wall mind pearls
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.
mind way intimate
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.
teacher mind literature
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
coffee fall mind
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 and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.
writing meditation mind
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.
mind ordinary remember
We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
book writing mind
Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about an onion, it might be a deeper way to go into what I'm working on, even though it might seem irrelevant. This is how I've learned to follow my mind.
along life poems process sane trying
It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.