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All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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Writer
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You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.
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In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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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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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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We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
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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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But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play? Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
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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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Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
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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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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.
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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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Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
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Making art is an act of faith.
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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
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Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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