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81 Julia Cameron Quotes To Inculcate Blue-Sky Thinking
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Julia Cameron is a celebrated American author, novelist, playwright, poet, composer, teacher, journalist and filmmaker. She is renowned for her book, ‘The Artist’s Way.’ Her writings include essays, screenplays, non-fiction works, novels, plays, short-stories and musicals. She has taught writing, filmmaking and creative unblocking at a number of institutes and centres. Some of her popular works include, ‘The Artist’s Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children,’ ‘Letters to a Young Artist,’ ‘Blessings,’ ‘Money Drunk,’ ‘Popcorn: Hollywood Stories,’ ‘The Medium at Large,’ ‘The Animal in the Trees,’ ‘God’s Will’ besides various others. We have amassed some popular quotations and sayings by Julia Cameron from the vast sea of her writings, works, thoughts, plays, books, novels, lectures, plays, poems, movies and life. Zoom through the motivational quotes and thoughts by the multi-faceted artist, Julia Cameron.
Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?
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.
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.
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?"
Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
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We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.
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It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
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The reward for attention is always healing.
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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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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
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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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When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.
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Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)
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.
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)
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
Julia Cameron
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
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.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA
Julia Cameron
The truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth. Without this creative moistening, we may remain barren. We must allow the bolt of pain to strike us. Remember, this is useful pain; lightning illuminates.
Julia Cameron
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
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.
Julia Cameron
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. EMMA GOLDMAN
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Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.
If we are invested in a writing life—as opposed to a writing career—then we are in it for the process and not the product.
Julia Cameron
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.
It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO
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When we let ourselves write from love, when we let ourselves steal minutes as gifts to ourselves, our lives become sweeter, our temperaments become sweeter.
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