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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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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Empty
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Easel
Creative
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Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
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Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.
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Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.
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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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Money cannot fill an empty soul.
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A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.
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Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
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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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Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
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When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
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Art is born in attention.
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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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I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
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Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for you might just get it?
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