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Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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I have students that I tell, If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around. The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
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It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
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We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
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Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
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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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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
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If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.
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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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We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case it was going to end soon. So, I wrote that and it was very comforting to have that practice in the afternoons in my living room. I just wrote about my life.
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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.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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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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