Julia Cameron Quotes - Page 10

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• In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

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  Baby, Block, Progress Not Perfection

  Julia Cameron (2001). “Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way”, p.42, Penguin

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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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  Art, Pain, Adventure

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• Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

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  Writing, Cherish, Acts Of Love

  Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.20, Penguin

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• When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

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  Faith, Letting Go, Serenity

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• Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

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  Creativity, Creative, Junk

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.28, Souvenir Press

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• I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

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  Love, Heart, Plant

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.17, Penguin

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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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  Artist, Order, Joy

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.150, Souvenir Press

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• Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

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  Dream, Courage, Admitting

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.239, Penguin

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• For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

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  Grace, Needs, Today

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.59, Penguin

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• I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

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  Art, Thinking, Making Love

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• When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

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  Love, Listening, Nature Love

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.17, Penguin

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• I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

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  Perseverance, Believe, Faithful

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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.

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  Happiness, Confused, Thinking

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.24, Souvenir Press

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• You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

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  Creative, Pathways, Needs

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• When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

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  Book, Home, Writing

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• It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.

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  Teacher, Block, Moving

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.17, Souvenir Press

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• If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it-pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. Artistic fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions-and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions.

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  Fear, Humble, Yield

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• You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.

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  Creativity, Focus, Joy

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• There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

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  Frustration, Artistic Life, Done

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

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• All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

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  Heart, Creativity, Ideas

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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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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  Morning, Creativity, Artist

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• When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

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  Dream, Creativity, Surveys

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.26, Souvenir Press

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• And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

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  Ohio, Laughing, Cracks

  Julia Cameron (2000). “God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path”, Tarcher

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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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  Spiritual, Creativity, Blood

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

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  Writing, Thinking, House

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