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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
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Sensible
Creativity
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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
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Workaholism is a block, not a building block.
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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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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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We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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Leap, and the net appears.
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
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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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In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
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My heart holds the world in tender awe.
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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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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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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
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