Natalie Goldberg Quotes

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

Every person has his or her own journey.

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

Everyone's journey is different in football; no one's the same.

All of us have our own journeys.

At some point, we have to move away from the pack to take certain journeys on our own.