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Workaholism is a block, not a building block.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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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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I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
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Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
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I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.
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Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.
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Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
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Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
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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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Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
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When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature
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Creativity is our true nature blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
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Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you think mystery, not mastery.
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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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Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
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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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Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
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