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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
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Libertyville
Illinois
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We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
Julia Cameron
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
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It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
Julia Cameron
Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
Julia Cameron
Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.
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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.
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Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.
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It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.
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Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
Julia Cameron
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
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We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.
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By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Julia Cameron
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
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Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it if you have to look for the why, then stop looking it was never there at all.
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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
Julia Cameron
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.
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