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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Lies
Attention
Lying
Sanity
Paying
Delight
Survival
Gift
Capacity

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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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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)
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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
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when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
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Workaholism is a block, not a building block.
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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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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. 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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Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.
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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
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We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.
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