Natalie Goldberg Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• 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-mann ered, congenial.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Practice

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Aug 05, 2011

• Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Space, Giving, Silence

• The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

• I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Practice, Rivers

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

• Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about an onion, it might be a deeper way to go into what I'm working on, even though it might seem irrelevant. This is how I've learned to follow my mind.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Writing, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Energy, Connections, Three

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Bothering You, Hands

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