We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

- Natalie Goldberg

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…

- Natalie Goldberg

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

- Natalie Goldberg

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

- Natalie Goldberg

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply…

- Natalie Goldberg

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the ce…

- 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.

- Natalie Goldberg

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

- Natalie Goldberg