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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

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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Meeting
Self
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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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As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.
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Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
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Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
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Art is born in attention.
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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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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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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.
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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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In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
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when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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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 we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.
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I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
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Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.
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I am due at the page.
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Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
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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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We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
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