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Creativity is not and never has been sensible.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
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Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Creativity
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Sensible
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As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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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 essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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God does not give us more than we can handle, I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
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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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It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
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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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As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.
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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
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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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If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.
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Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
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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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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
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We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters
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In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.
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