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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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• 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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• 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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• Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

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  Drama, Rain, Writing

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

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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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• 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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• No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

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  Children, Healing, Thinking

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.207, Souvenir Press

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• Love is not love if it is 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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  Life, Love Is, Fire

  "Blessings". Book by Julia Cameron, 1998.

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• 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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  Writing, More Time, Dominant

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

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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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• It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

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  Depression, Crazy, Feels Just

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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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• I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Esoteric

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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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• 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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• To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

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  Writing, Path, Right Thing

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• Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

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  Block, Building, Building Blocks

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.218, Souvenir Press

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• Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

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  Moving, Inspiration, Exercise

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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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• 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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  Inspirational, Interesting, Belief

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.78, Souvenir Press

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• There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

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  Inspirational, Get Better, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.51, Souvenir Press

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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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• Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

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  Spiritual, Writing, Practice

  "The Artist's Way". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

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