Top 100 Julia Cameron Quotes
#1. If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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#2. A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.
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#3. I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
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#4. 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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#5. The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
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#6. To write is to right things. A path will emerge.
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#7. The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
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#8. In daily life there is an inner transition I can consciously practice. This is the transition from fear to faith. Faced with ambiguity and uncertainty, I can choose to believe things will work out for the best.
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#9. In order to achieve escape velocity, we must learn to keep our own counsel, to move silently among doubters, to voice our plans only among our allies, and to name our allies accurately.
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#10. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
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#11. Often God shuts a door in our face, And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go. CATHERINE MARSHALL
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#12. It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
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#13. Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
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#14. Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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#15. An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
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#16. Today, I accept divine timing. I allow the pacing of the Universe to be my own. I align myself with the tempo of my life precisely as it is unfolding.
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#17. Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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#18. You are either losing your mind
or gaining your soul.
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#19. YOU HAVE the right to my help. I am your creator. Your problems are my problems. Ask me for help. I give it to you gladly. I am saddened when you try to live alone. My desire for you is union and fulfillment. I am your answered prayer. I am always what you seek.
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#20. Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
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#21. There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority.
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#22. 'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.
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#23. The "if I had time" lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and that writing happens a sentence at a time. Sentences can happen in a moment. Enough stolen moments, enough stolen sentences, and a novel is born - without the luxury of time.
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#24. When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them.
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#25. Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.
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#26. 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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#27. People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
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#28. No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
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#29. Today, I am a clear stream flowing softly through green meadows. I make my way swiftly but gently to my goals.
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#30. Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
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#32. I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.
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#33. The only anxiety is my imagined absence. I am never absent. I am present for you always.
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#34. We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will ... not where we will it.
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#35. My mother set us to an activity and let us be.
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#36. I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.
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#37. You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
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#38. We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
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#39. Our internal artist is always our creative child.
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#40. In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.
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#41. Work is a part of my identity but it is not my essence.
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#43. But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?
Yes ... the same age you will be if you don't.
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#44. Allow me to bring you companions worthy of your love.
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#45. As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
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#46. Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
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#47. Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)
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#48. 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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#50. There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. PETER DRUCKER
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#51. Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
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#52. I think I could learn a little patience with myself if I took a view of myself that included concepts like dormancy (instead of laziness), seed planting (instead of just scattered), gestation (instead of doing-something-right-this-second).
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#53. Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.
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#54. 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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#55. The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.
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#56. Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.
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#57. The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
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#62. 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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#63. Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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#64. We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.
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#65. People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.
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#66. It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.
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#67. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations.
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#68. Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?
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#69. Do not be discouraged by the ways in which you fall short. Every shortcoming is to me an opportunity for your growth.
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#70. Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
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#71. Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
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#72. In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.
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#73. Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
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#74. 'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.
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#75. Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...
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#76. The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
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#77. Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.
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#78. Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
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#79. It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
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#80. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
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#81. Think of me as deep music. You can always hear me if you try.
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#82. I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
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#83. We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
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#84. Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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#85. If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.
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#86. You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.
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#87. A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
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#88. What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
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#89. In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.
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#90. When we let ourselves write from love, when we let ourselves steal minutes as gifts to ourselves, our lives become sweeter, our temperaments become sweeter.
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#91. FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR
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#92. If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.
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#93. Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it.
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#94. When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.
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#95. We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters
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#96. You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.
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#97. We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.
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#98. If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
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#99. Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good.
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#100. My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'
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