Top 100 Julia Cameron Quotes
#1. The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron
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#2. When Aaron arrived at my place - a ground-floor studio fitting my full-size bed, desk, and TV - he came bearing gifts: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and two red tension balls. "I figure they'll help you relax and write," he said. We watched my favorite relationship
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#3. For instance, in The Artist's Way, her influential book about cultivating creativity, Julia Cameron suggests scheduling an artist's date,
Gretchen Rubin
#4. 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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#5. All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.
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#6. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.
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#7. If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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#8. Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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#9. Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.
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#10. 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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#11. I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
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#12. I believe that what we want to write wants to be written
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#13. 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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#14. Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. To write is to right things. A path will emerge.
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#19. Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.
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#20. The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
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#21. 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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#22. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
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#23. The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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#24. 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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#25. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
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#26. 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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#27. In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.
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#28. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that makes our lives. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. MERLE SHAIN
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#29. 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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#30. Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.
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#31. As an artist, I do not need to be rich but I do need to be richly supported. I cannot allow my emotional and intellectual life to stagnate or the work will show it. My life will show it.
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#32. Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.
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#33. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
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#34. Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
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#35. It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
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#36. 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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#37. Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
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#38. Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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#39. 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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#40. I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.
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#41. Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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#42. Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
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#43. Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.
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#44. The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
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#45. Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
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#46. 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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#47. The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.
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#49. Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, 'You're enough.
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#50. 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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#51. What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?
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#52. Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
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#53. We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
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#54. When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
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#55. Your depression is exhaustion. Like Atlas, you try to carry this world on your own shoulders. This was never my intention. Allow me to carry the world.
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#56. It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.
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#57. When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about.
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#58. The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.
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#59. I will clear for you a way and a path. Stay close to me. I hold the lantern, dispelling your anxiety. I am your chosen path.
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#60. Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
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#61. Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
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#62. The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?
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#63. 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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#64. In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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#65. Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
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#66. One of the reasons many of us avoid meditation is that we think of it as work - and work we may not do perfectly. What if we didn't have to do it perfectly? What if we didn't have to "do" it at all? What if we could rest - and let God do the rest?
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#67. Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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#68. No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
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#69. You are either losing your mind
or gaining your soul.
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#71. By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. I began to pray for help with what I needed and wanted as well as for the knowledge of God's will for me and the power to carry it out. Immediately, I felt a heightened sense of spiritual companionship.
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#75. When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.
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#76. Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
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#77. Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
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#78. Walk with me to the edge of the city, / Take off your shoes and feel the earth. / Remember who you are. You are a star. / A mountain, that fountain in the sun. / Your heart is the velvet cave / Where birds sing.
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#79. Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
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#80. 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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#81. In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
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#82. '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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#83. Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.
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#84. 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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#85. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.
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#86. You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)
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#87. God does not give us more than we can handle, I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
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#88. When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them.
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#89. 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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#90. We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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#91. A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]
Franz Kafka
#92. 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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#93. Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
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#94. Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
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#95. Reaching toward God has made me more me and not less me. I was always afraid you would erase me. Instead, you are helping me to sketch me in.
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#96. 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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#97. No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
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#98. Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
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#99. It's impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
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#100. Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.
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