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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.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
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The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
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As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.
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