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3 reviews
Natalie Goldberg, Julia Cameron

Sounds True, 2005

Find somebody who loves to write and listen to them!
"Artists are the antennae of the race." (Ezra Pound).. so quote the authors interviewed on this tape. Both Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron stress that writing is "a form of listening, a conduit that connects you to everything within yourself as well as to everything outside of youself." Therefore, writing is about receptivity. It's not always about the finished product but about the ...

Writing Down the Bones

165 reviews
Nathalie Goldberg

Shambhala, 1996

Wow, writing doesn't have to be painful heinous experience to avoid at any/all costs?
I'm a freelance creative and sometimes (ok, often) need to be reminded why I write. And that I actually love it way, way more than I hate it. Natalie Goldberg's teeny pocket book is perfect motivation for any writer of any genre including the personal journal. This is a written from a personal, vulnerable place as we get a clear sense of her personal struggles/triumphs. Best of all, every chapter ...

The Great Failure: My Unexpected Path to Truth (Plus)

20 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

HarperOne, 2005

pure DHARMA!
A lot of people naively equate Buddhism with vegetarianism, pacifism, incense and robes and statues of a potbellied man sitting cross-legged, fuzzy-wuzzy "love everybody even the mosquitoes" cumbiyah type sentiments. Yet the essential core teaching of Buddhism, which most people (especially Westerners) find wholly incomprehensible and/or deeply frightening, is that of EMPTINESS: the ultimate ...

Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America

24 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Bantam, 1994

I got so absorbed, I missed a deadline!
When this book first came out, I remember reading it straight through three times. And I sent it to nearly every writer or spiritual seeker I knew. Today, I was looking on my bookshelf hoping for inspiration on a book to send a new friend who is in the midst of a spiritual struggle (though I see it as an awakening). I picked up Ms. Goldberg's book and started thumbing through it. Before I ...

Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

52 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Bantam, 1990

This book helped me enjoy my travelling years
After College I went travelling for a few years. I'm glad I read Natalie's book, because it gave me a very simple, grounded way of writing about my experiences. I wasn't interested in mimicking 'great authors' or using high-brow literary style - but rather capturing the flavor of the moment. She taught me about relishing and really living the small details of my life - appreciating the ...

Essential Writer's Notebook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Writing (Journal, Diary) (Guided Journals)

6 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Peter Pauper Press, 2001

An Excellent Notebook
I found this to be an excellent notebook. Keep in mind that this is essentially a workbook, not a text on writing. If you are looking for a beautiful place to put your thoughts , this is for you. Quotes from the author are scattered thoughout the book to prompt your inner voice. I like this book so much, that I'm going to buy another copy when I fill the first one. The lush artwork of Ms. ...

Cultivating the Mind of Love
Thich Nhat Hanh

Parallax Press, 2008

When Thich Nhat Hanh was a 24-year-old monk, he fell desperately in love with a nun of 20. He couldn?t sleep, and stayed up all night writing poetry. This book taps that experience in an ambitious double narrative that interweaves his memories of that first love with how it was transmuted into boddhichitta with a thoughtful study of the Mahayana Buddhist sutras. Through this unusual approach, Nhat Hanh shows readers how to nurture their own ...

Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World

8 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Bantam, 1997

playful and brilliant
Natalie's paintings are dazzling...she seems to have caught the emotional color of her subjects, the inner dance of things...it's essential magic. In the chapter titled "How I Paint", she says: " I noticed that the blue of my paints wasn't blue enough to get the intensity of that New Mexico sky. I painted the sky red instead. I painted Jazz yellow. He was a brown dog, but yellow expressed him ...

Thunder and Lightning : Cracking Open the Writer's Craft

31 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Bantam Books, 2000

goldberg: a bridge from wanna be to writer
natalie goldberg, famous for writing down the bones, is a sister, an encourager, a deep artist-maker-writer-soulstress who lays open her insight, her striving, her struggle, her bannana rose triumph and despair, her writing rules, her friendships, her jewish origin and zen discoveries, her brilliance to serve as a bridge from wanna be to writer. she does it effortlessly--or so it seems, exuding ...

Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

11 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Free Press, 2008

"What you fear, if you turn toward it, will give your writing teeth"
This morning at 4:30 I turned on the light to read a few more pages of Old Friend From Far Away. I skipped toward the end and read about how at a celebration for the twentieth anniversary of Natalie's first book, a woman who took her writing class when she was a young student at an alternative school, stood up to speak. The woman told her story of how one Monday Natalie brought in a bushel of ...

Library of Congress Law Library: An Illustrated Guide
Jolande Goldberg, Natalie Gawdiak

Library of Congress, 2006

Describes the collections of the Library of Congress Law Library. Illustrated with images from its treasures. Many of the illustrations are in color

Writing Down the Bones - Freeing the Writer Within (Collector's Edition)
Natalie Goldberg

Sounds True, 1999

Collector's edition with Commentary & Exclusive Interview. Unabridged. 7 Cds. Natalie Goldberg reads this classic work, while offering commentary about the creative, spiritual, and practical dimensions of writing.

Old Friend from Far Away: How to Write a Memoir

4 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Sounds True, 2002

And she does feel like an old friend...
It's easy to get hooked on Natalie Goldberg and it's not always easy to say why. In her Long Island accent -- not much changed by living in Minnesota and New Mexico -- she delivers wry commentary on writing much as I'd imagine a zen master lecturing a favorite student. She can be tough and demanding but she clearly loves her students. And she's very open about her own life, in and out of ...

Writing the Landscape of Your Mind

1 review
Natalie Goldberg

Writer's AudioShop, 1994

Looooooove Goldberg!
I missed Natalie Goldberg's workshop in Minneapolis...But I found(and was quite excited about it!) her workshop on audio. In the comfort of my home, I had my own personal Natalie Goldberg writing workshop. It was wonderful! Natalie talks about writing (Of course) And "Writing Practice" "Just trust yourself," she says. "You don't have anyone else to trust. Write. Write. Write." And do not ...

Banana Rose

24 reviews
Natalie Goldberg

Bantam, 1997

Hippies, New Mexico, getting older...who could ask for more?
I wish I could say that my life was entirely linear...focused and directed, easily understood and appreciated by all I come into contact with...but it isn't always that way. This is a good book and a good story...not always moving in a straight line like some of the books I've read...but moving somewhere and noticing along the way some of the things we might have missed while we demanded a story ...

Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg

Writer's AudioShop, 1998

Freeing the Writer Within By Natalie Goldberg The best-selling author of Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind offers a Zen approach to help the writer in getting the essential words from mind to paper. Recorded at workshop. 1 tape - 90 minutes

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