Julia Cameron Quotes

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We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will.....not where we will it.

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Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

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All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

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We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

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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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There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.

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No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

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

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

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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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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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Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

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The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

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I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.

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Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.

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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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In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

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Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

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

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

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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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