Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart. Natalie Goldberg More Quotes by Natalie Goldberg More Quotes From Natalie Goldberg Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. Natalie Goldberg creativity moments thinking As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write. Natalie Goldberg second-chance live-life writing When you are present, the world is truly alive. Natalie Goldberg alive world All of us can create if we allow ourselves to. Natalie Goldberg creativity ifs Every moment is enormous and it is all we have. Natalie Goldberg enormous moments When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure. Natalie Goldberg want writing firsts Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. Natalie Goldberg cracks mind writing Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment. Natalie Goldberg moments literature giving Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it. Natalie Goldberg letting-go spring fall Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Natalie Goldberg stress earth forget Writing is the act of discovery. Natalie Goldberg writing discovery I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have. Natalie Goldberg strong real hurt 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 nice writing attention Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. Natalie Goldberg speak waiting writing Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write. Natalie Goldberg down-and shut-up writing I am free to write the worst junk in the world. Natalie Goldberg junk writing world Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our lifeforce, and then we go on carrying that person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, 'Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.' This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on. Natalie Goldberg cells roots long 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. Natalie Goldberg real use writing 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. Natalie Goldberg myth who-we-are accepting 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. Natalie Goldberg creativity ideas art
