Anything you fully do is an alone journey. - Natalie Goldberg
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. - Natalie Goldberg
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. - Natalie Goldberg
Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you’re free. - Natalie Goldberg
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal. - Natalie Goldberg
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial. - Natalie Goldberg
Dreams are another slice of reality, not different from where we are now—they just tell about it in a different way. They also can open up your reality. They don’t have the constraints of conscious logic. - Natalie Goldberg
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. - Natalie Goldberg
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it - Natalie Goldberg
Anything we fully do is an alone journey. - Natalie Goldberg