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Art is born in 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
Attention
Born
Art

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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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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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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
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By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
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When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature
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You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
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