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If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Creativity
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Spirituality

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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
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There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
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Creativity is not and never has been sensible.
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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
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Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
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You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.
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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
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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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Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.
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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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Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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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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