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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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Libertyville
Illinois
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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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Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.
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At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
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If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
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Creativity is a spiritual issue.
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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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We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
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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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Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.
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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.
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As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
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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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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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My heart holds the world in tender awe.
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