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By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Path
Within
Right
Creator
Listening

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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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Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.
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We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
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Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it if you have to look for the why, then stop looking it was never there at all.
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In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.
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We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
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Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
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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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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.
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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
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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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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
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The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
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Workaholism is a block, not a building block.
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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
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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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Creativity is not and never has been sensible.
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