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My heart holds the world in tender awe.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Heart
World
Awe
Tender
Holds

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People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
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Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
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All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.
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We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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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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we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
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The reward for attention is always healing.
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Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.
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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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We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)
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It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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Serious art is born from serious play.
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In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
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I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
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Art is born in attention.
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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
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