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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
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
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As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
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It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.
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we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
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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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Soul is not about function it's about beauty, form, and memory.
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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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