Julia Cameron Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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- Acceptance,
- Acting,
- Age,
- Art,
- Children,
- Choices,
- Clarity,
- Commitment,
- Consciousness,
- Creativity,
- Darkness,
- Dreams,
- Effort,
- Encouragement,
- Energy,
- Exercise,
- Flowers,
- Focus,
- Giving,
- Grace,
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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.”
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“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.”
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“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.”
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“The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.”
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“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.”
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“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”
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“Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.”
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“As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.”
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“I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support. When they are grieved, I listen with openness and gentle strength. I offer loyalty, friendship, and human understanding. Without undermining or enabling, I aid and assist others to find their strength. I allow the healing power of the Universe to flow through me, soothing the hearts and feelings of those I encounter.”
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“... success or failure, 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.”
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“Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.”
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“Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.”
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“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.”
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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...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.”
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“When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.”
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“Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.”
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“Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.”
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“The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.”
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“The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.”
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“Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”
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“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.”
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“The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.”
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“You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.”
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“Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.”
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“We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.”
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“Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.”
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“Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.”
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“Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.”
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“An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.”
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“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.”
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More Julia Cameron quote about:
- Growth,
- Harmony,
- Healing,
- Heart,
- Hell,
- Innovation,
- Inspiration,
- Inspirational,
- Journey,
- Letting Go,
- Life,
- Listening,
- Loss,
- Lying,
- Pain,
- Perfection,
- Perfectionism,
- Prayer,
- Progress,
- Prosperity,
- Soul,
- Talent,
- Today,
- Universe,
- Waiting,
- Work,
- Writing,