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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
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The problem is we think we exist.
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Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
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The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.
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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
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It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
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Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
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Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.
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Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.
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I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.
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Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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