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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.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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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 a spiritual issue.
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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.
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Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
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Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.
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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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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
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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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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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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
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Serious art is born from serious play.
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Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
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There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
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You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
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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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when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
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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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