Julia Cameron Quotes

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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

Julia Cameron
Focused on our good, focused on our abundance we naturally attract more of the same. This is spiritual law. Our consciousness is creative. What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

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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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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

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Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

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Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.

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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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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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Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

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Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us.

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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough — that we should try again.

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The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.

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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

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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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Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

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What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?

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There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

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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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In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

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Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.

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Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

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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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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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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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Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open

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We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

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