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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Adversity
Toward
Works
Good

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At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
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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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