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Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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Libertyville
Illinois
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Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.
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We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
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Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
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I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
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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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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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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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Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you think mystery, not mastery.
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Creativity is our true nature blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me? . . . Whenever I am willing to ask What is necessary next? I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.
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Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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