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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

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  Encouragement, Pregnancy, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.123, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

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  Spiritual, Perseverance, Believe

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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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• You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

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  Clock Is Ticking, Soul, Mind

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.244, Penguin

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• Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

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  Art, People, Soul

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• If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

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  Writing, Mind, Want

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• As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

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  Holiday, Disruption, Tempo

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• 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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  Color, Ideas, Lines

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.77, Penguin

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• I am due at the page.

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  Pages, Dues

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.43, Penguin

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• I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

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  Art, Injury, I Am What I Am

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.35, Penguin

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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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• While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process.

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  Spiritual, Pain, Writing

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