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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Personal
Practice
Happy
Writing
Life
Pivotal
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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
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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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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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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.
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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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The reward for attention is always healing.
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In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)
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Making art is an act of faith.
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When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.
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There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
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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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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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