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Creativity is a spiritual issue.

Julia Cameron

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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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Creativity
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Spiritual
Ideas
Innovation

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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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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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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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Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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