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When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.
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We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.
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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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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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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.
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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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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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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
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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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I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
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We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.
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The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.
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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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Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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