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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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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The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
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Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
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Soul is not about function it's about beauty, form, and memory.
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There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.
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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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A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.
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Serious art is born from serious play.
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Creativity is a spiritual issue.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.
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The reward for attention is always healing.
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Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
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Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.
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Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.
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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
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Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
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Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.
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