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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Faith
Experience
Life

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It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.
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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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Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
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Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for you might just get it?
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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
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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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And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
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I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.
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When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.
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We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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Leap, and the net appears.
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