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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.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
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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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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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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.
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[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.
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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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We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
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I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.
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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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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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