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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Change
Expansive
Potential
Choice
Choices

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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
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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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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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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
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The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
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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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You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.
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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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It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.
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It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
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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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My heart holds the world in tender awe.
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
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When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.
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I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
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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.
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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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