Julia Cameron Quotes

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

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We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express...

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Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

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We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

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I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.

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We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

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Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.

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I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?"... Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.

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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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When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

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Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

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It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

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Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?

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Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

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What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

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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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I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

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There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

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As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

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As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

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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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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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It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

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By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

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Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

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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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If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

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I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

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I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

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