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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.
Natalie Goldberg
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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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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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If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.
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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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We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.
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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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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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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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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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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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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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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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I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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 honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.
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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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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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