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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Taught
Making
Art
Something
Smidgen
Tiniest
Cherished
Progress

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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
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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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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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It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
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Art is born in attention.
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
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There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
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I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me? . . . Whenever I am willing to ask What is necessary next? I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.
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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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We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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