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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.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Sculpture
Composition
Creator
Express
Dancing
Dance
Creativity
Experience
Conduit

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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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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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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
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Soul is not about function it's about beauty, form, and memory.
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I am due at the page.
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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)
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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 must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one
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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.
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At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
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God does not give us more than we can handle, I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
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Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
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We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
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I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
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