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Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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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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When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.
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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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We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
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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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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
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You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
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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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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
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Money cannot fill an empty soul.
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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.
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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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Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.
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The reward for attention is always healing.
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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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