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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
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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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The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.
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Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.
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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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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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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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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
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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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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
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The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
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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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Workaholism is a block, not a building block.
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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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Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.
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I am due at the page.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
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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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Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.
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