Julia Cameron - The vein of gold (1996)

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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

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We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

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Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

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

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

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