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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Acted
Anger
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Upon

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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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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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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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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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Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
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When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.
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I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.
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We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
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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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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
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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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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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Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
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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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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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Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
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Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
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