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Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Impossibility
Frightening
Possibility

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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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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
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When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
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I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
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Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.
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It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
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It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.
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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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Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.
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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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You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
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It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.
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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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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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Soul is not about function it's about beauty, form, and memory.
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I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
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