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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.
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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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The problem is we think we exist.
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I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.
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While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
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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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I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
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You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.
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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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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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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.
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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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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.
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Creativity is no big deal.
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