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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
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
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But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play? Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
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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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I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
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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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The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
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Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
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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.
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Money cannot fill an empty soul.
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There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.
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Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
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You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.
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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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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
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When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
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There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
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We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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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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