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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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As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
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No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
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In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
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We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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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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Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
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When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature
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The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
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we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
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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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You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.
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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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What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
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There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.
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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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