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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

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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It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.
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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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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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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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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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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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I am due at the page.
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It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.
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Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.
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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
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When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.
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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
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Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you think mystery, not mastery.
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There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
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Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
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There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
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You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
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We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
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