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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
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When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
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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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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.
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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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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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Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.
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The reward for attention is always healing.
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