Julia Cameron Quotes

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• Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

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  Thinking, Mastery, Mystery

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Apr 28, 2014

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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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  Strong, Thinking, Giving

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 05, 2016

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• Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

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  Progress Not Perfection, Asking, Should

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jan 23, 2014

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• The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

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  Letting Go, Creativity, Creative

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Nov 02, 2015

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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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  Creativity, Writing, Bombs

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

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  Creativity, Order, Creative

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from May 29, 2016

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• As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Dream

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• The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

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  Self, Voice, People

  Julia Cameron (1997). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.29, Penguin

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• I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

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  Life, God, Letting Go

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.48, Penguin

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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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  Inspirational, Empowerment, Acting

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.93, Souvenir Press

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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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  Motivational, Money, Work

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.148, Souvenir Press

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• Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

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  Spiritual, Art, Practice

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Apr 30, 2015

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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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  Motivational, Recovery, New Beginnings

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin

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• Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

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  Dream, Art, People

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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• Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

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  Creativity

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 01, 2015

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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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  Love Is, Optimism, Energy

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• All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

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  Wise, Light, Creative

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• Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

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  Lying, Survival, Attention

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• 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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  Choices, Focus, Empowering

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.10, Penguin

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

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  Art, Play, Imagination

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.44, Souvenir Press

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• Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

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  Uplifting, Hands, Helping

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, Penguin

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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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  Jobs, Believe, Moving

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.25, Penguin

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• Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?

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  Spiritual, Asking, Next

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• Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

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  Strong, Make Me Strong, Objects

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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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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  Happiness, Wisdom, Confused

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