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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
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Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
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Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.
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By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
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There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
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Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.
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We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
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But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play? Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
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I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.
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When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.
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I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.
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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.
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