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• We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

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  World, Concerts, Whole Life

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• When you are present, the world is truly alive.

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  Alive, World

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.

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  Determination, Powerful, Heart

  Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• A writer must say yes to life.

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  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

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  Dream, Writing, Acceptance

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Moments

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• The problem is we think we exist.

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  Thinking, Problem

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• I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.

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  Teaching, Book, Writing

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

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• Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.

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  Real, Writing, Use

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing.

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  Writing, Thinking, Fire

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

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  Art, Creativity, Ideas

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• Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

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  Writing, Waiting, Speak

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.168, Shambhala Publications

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• When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."

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  Attitude, Writing, Expectations

  Natalie Goldberg (2005). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• poems are small moments of enlightenment

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  Enlightenment, Small Moments, Moments

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

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  Writing, Bothering You, Hands

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• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

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  Stress, Earth, Forget

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

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  Great Love, Lovers, Realizing

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

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  Who We Are, Accepting, Myth

  Natalie Goldberg (2005). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

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  Writing, Heart, Secret

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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• Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

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  Moments, Enormous

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

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  Hurt, People, Darkness

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• At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.

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  Wall, Mind, Pearls

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• Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not hold on? Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize we received something. Gratitude is the most developed and mature of human emotions.

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  Letting Go, Gratitude, Grease

  Natalie Goldberg (2014). “The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

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  Drinking, Artist, Suffering

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• I am free to write the worst junk in the world.

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  Writing, Junk, World

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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