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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
Deepen
Spirituality
Creativity
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Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.
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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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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
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We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
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When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.
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We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.
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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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Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
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Leap, and the net appears.
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Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.
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Creativity is a spiritual issue.
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Workaholism is a block, not a building block.
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No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
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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 we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.
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Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
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