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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
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Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
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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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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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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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The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
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The reward for attention is always healing.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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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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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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