While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
Natalie GoldbergWe 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 GoldbergOriginal details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.
Natalie GoldbergKatagiri 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.
Natalie Goldberg