Natalie Goldberg Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Teacher, Knowledge, East

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.73, Open Road Media

• That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just laziness. Get to work." But as for discipline, I don't even use that word. I think more about passion or love. What I've really learned is the way the mind moves, and how the mind works. Rather than discipline, I know how to seduce my mind.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Teacher, Moving, Passion

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

• I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Teacher, Mind, Literature

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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