Natalie Goldberg
"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."
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"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."
"اكتب ما يقلقك، ما تخشاه، ما لم تكن مستعدًا للحديث عنه. كن مستعدًا لأن تُشَقَّ."
Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind."
"سواء كنت تدون يومياتك أو تتخذ الكتابة وسيلة"
Natalie Goldberg
"Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go."
"ثِقْ بما تُحِبّ، واظِبْ عليه، وسَيُوصِلُكَ حيثُ ينبغي أن تكون."
Natalie Goldberg
"Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth."
"لا تستهن بالناس أبدًا، فهم يتوقون إلى حد الحقيقة."
Natalie Goldberg
"Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness."
"تحتاج النساء إلى الفسحة والصمت. إننا نُفرّغ طاقتنا بسرعة بالغة. هناك سرٌّ في الاحتفاظ بذلك الثراء الداخلي."
Natalie Goldberg
"Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back."
"الفشل هو ما نفرّ منه جميعًا، فدائمًا ما نسعى نحو النجاح والفشل يطاردنا من الخلف."
Natalie Goldberg
"There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before."
"لا أمان ولا ضمانة في أننا ما دمنا قد أبدعنا شيئًا قبل شهرين، فسنقدر على فعله مجددًا. بل في كل مرة نبدأ فيها، نتساءل كيف فعلناها من قبل."
Natalie Goldberg
"Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce."
"الحياة ليست منظمة. ومهما حاولنا ترتيبها، ففي غمرة عيشها نموت، نفقد ساقاً، نقع في الحب، أو نسقط وعاءً من صلصة التفاح."
Natalie Goldberg
"Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down."
"التوتر في جوهره انفصال عن الأرض، وغفلة عن الأنفاس. التوتر حالة جهل، يظن أن كل شيء طارئ. لا شيء بتلك الأهمية حقًا. فقط استلقِ."
Natalie Goldberg
"...and though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say."
"...وبينما يزمجر الموت خلف ظهورنا وتزأر الحياة في وجوهنا، يمكننا أن نبدأ فحسب بالكتابة، أن نبدأ ببساطة في تدوين ما يتوجب علينا قوله."
Natalie Goldberg
"Ninety percent of writing is about listening."
"تسعون بالمئة من الكتابة استماع."
Natalie Goldberg
"Writers live twice."
Natalie Goldberg
"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
"Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you’re free."
Natalie Goldberg
"Dreams are another slice of reality, not different from where we are now—they just tell about it in a different way. They also can open up your reality. They don’t have the constraints of conscious logic."
Natalie Goldberg
"We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway... Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing."
Natalie Goldberg
"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-mannered, congenial."
Natalie Goldberg
"Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it"
Natalie Goldberg
"Anything we fully do is an alone journey."
Natalie Goldberg
"My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal."
Natalie Goldberg
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