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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
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Libertyville
Illinois
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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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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
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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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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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Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.
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Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me? . . . Whenever I am willing to ask What is necessary next? I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.
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People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
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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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