Julia Cameron Quotes - Page 11

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• 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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  Writing, Over You, May

  "The Artist's Way: An Interview With Julia Cameron". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

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  Self, Expression, Needs

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.132, Penguin

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• Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.

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  Spiritual, Block, Humble

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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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• 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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• I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

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  Love, Heart, Plant

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.17, Penguin

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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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• I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.

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  Faith, New Life, World

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.14, Penguin

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• So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

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  Wall, Believe, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.82, Penguin

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• When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

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  Thinking, Editors, Said

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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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• 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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  Dream, Commitment, Support

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from May 04, 2017

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• And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

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  Writing, Thinking, House

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

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  Art, Ideas, Harder

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

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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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• It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.

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  Teacher, Block, Moving

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.17, Souvenir Press

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• I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.

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  Beautiful, Fashion, Loss

  Julia Cameron (2007). “The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size”, p.38, 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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