Natalie Goldberg Quotes

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

I don't digest things with my mind.

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

I've had experiences where my life will try to tell me something in a dream and sometimes it's something I'm not ready to hear.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.