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You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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More quotes by Julia Cameron
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.
Julia Cameron
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
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When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.
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There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
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Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
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when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
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At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
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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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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
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Love is the greatest medicine. I ask to be healing medicine for others. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved.
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
Julia Cameron
Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.
Julia Cameron
I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
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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.
Julia Cameron
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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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)
Julia Cameron
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.
Julia Cameron
Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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