Julia Cameron Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ...
The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.
Often God shuts a door in our face, And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go. CATHERINE MARSHALL
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.
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
When I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
The tools of 'The Prosperous Heart' help people to embrace the life that they actually have, where they often find that they already have 'enough.'
I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.
The myth that we must have "time" - more time - in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have.
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. PETER DRUCKER
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone.
When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.
Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.
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.
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
There is no emergency. My divine timing is perfect and serves you well. Trust my sense of right action. Your successful unfolding is my great joy.
Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, 'You're enough.
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.
Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.