If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
– Natalie Goldberg
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
– Natalie Goldberg
It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.
– Natalie Goldberg
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
– Natalie Goldberg
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
– Natalie Goldberg
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
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
Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
– Natalie Goldberg
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
– Natalie Goldberg
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
– Natalie Goldberg
When you are present, the world is truly alive.
– Natalie Goldberg
Anything you fully do is an alone journey.
– Natalie Goldberg
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
– Natalie Goldberg
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
– Natalie Goldberg
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.