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• All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

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  Moving, Artist, Audacity

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

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  Anger, Meant To Be

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.88, Souvenir Press

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

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  Prayer, Artist, Grace

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 18, 2017

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• Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

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  Writing, Creativity, Heaven

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.30, Penguin

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• when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

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  Writing, Talking, Response

  "Becoming Intimate With Your Own Creative Impulses". Interview with Brad Crawford, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

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  Loss, Parenting, Answers

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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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  Dream, Thinking, Accustomed

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 04, 2015

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• Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.

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  Inspiration, Practice, Radio Waves

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

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• Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

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  Encouragement, Water, Support

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.264, Souvenir Press

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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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  Doe, Matter, Life Is

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.93, Penguin

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• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

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  Artist, Order, Giving

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• I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

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  Morning, Writing, Character

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• Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

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  Real, Believe, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.255, Penguin

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• We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

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  Writing, Trying, Waste

  "Becoming Intimate With Your Own Creative Impulses". Interview with Brad Crawford, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

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  Dying, Sometimes

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• What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

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  Thinking, Goal, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.145, Souvenir Press

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• As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.

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  Song, Art, Moving

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• When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

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  Wise, Horse, Adventure

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• Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.

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  Writing, Heart, Profound

  Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.13, Penguin

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• Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

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  Technology, Perspective, Age

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• Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

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  Agendas, Drains

  Julia Cameron (2005). “Letters to a Young Artist: Building a Life in Art”, Tarcher

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• Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

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  Ideas, Harder, Bad Ideas

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.13, Souvenir Press

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• At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

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  Beauty, Roots, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.14, Penguin

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• The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

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  Opposites, Anxiety, Poverty

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from May 18, 2012

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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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  Spiritual, Art, Fun

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