Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldbergis an American popular New Age author and speaker She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
teacher moving passion
That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just laziness. Get to work." But as for discipline, I don't even use that word. I think more about passion or love. What I've really learned is the way the mind moves, and how the mind works. Rather than discipline, I know how to seduce my mind.
cancer writing
So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.
cancer trying
The first thing is how awful it [cancer] was, the experience. You know, 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.
cancer writing essays
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
cancer fabulous
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.
cancer memoir
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
cancer spring book
The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.
cancer mean writing
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.
fun people
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.
voice self-hate critics
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
teacher mind literature
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
father comforting kind
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.
dream writing acceptance
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.
good-times enjoyment dies
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.