Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
—Natalie Goldberg
Topics: Trust
We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg
Topics: Identity
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that’s why we decide we’re done. It’s getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
—Natalie Goldberg
Topics: Beginnings
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
—Natalie Goldberg
Topics: Balance, Stress
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- Joseph Goldstein American Buddhist Teacher
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- Robert Thurman American Buddhist Scholar
- The 14th Dalai Lama Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader
- Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader
- Alan Watts British-American Philosopher
- Taisen Deshimaru Japanese Buddhist Teacher
- Hugh Prather American Christian Author
- Matthieu Ricard French Buddhist Monk
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