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... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying 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
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Life
Quality
Attention
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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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We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
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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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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters
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But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play? Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
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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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The reward for attention is always healing.
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Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you think mystery, not mastery.
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Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.
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If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
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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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Serious art is born from serious play.
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Creativity is not and never has been sensible.
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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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Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
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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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