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Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
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When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
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We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
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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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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
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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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It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
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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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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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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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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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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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Making art is an act of faith.
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We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
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... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.
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Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.
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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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