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The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got. -- Julia Cameron
When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that -- Julia Cameron
I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world. -- Julia Cameron
In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all. -- Julia Cameron
Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, 'You're enough. -- Julia Cameron
We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in. -- Julia Cameron
Serious art is born from serious play. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader. -- Julia Cameron
Leap, and the net appears. -- Julia Cameron
In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment. -- Julia Cameron
Do not be discouraged by the ways in which you fall short. Every shortcoming is to me an opportunity for your growth. -- Julia Cameron
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path. -- Julia Cameron
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self. -- Julia Cameron
We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core. -- Julia Cameron
YOU HAVE the right to my help. I am your creator. Your problems are my problems. Ask me for help. I give it to you gladly. I am saddened when you try to live alone. My desire for you is union and fulfillment. I am your answered prayer. I am always what you seek. -- Julia Cameron
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God. -- Julia Cameron
There are sounds to seasons. There are sounds to places, and there are sounds to every time in one's life. ALISON WYRLEY BIRCH -- Julia Cameron
Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done. -- Julia Cameron
Gently set all ego aside and be a channel for my thinking to come into the world. -- Julia Cameron
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) -- Julia Cameron
My mother set us to an activity and let us be. -- Julia Cameron
If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us. -- 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. -- Julia Cameron
No matter is too complex for the healing impact of divine mind. Divine mind arranges everything to its highest order. What lies within you knows how to act and when to act. Tuned to divine mind, you have an unshakable inner clarity that makes proper and appropriate choices. Your good is assured. -- Julia Cameron
Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want. -- 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 -- Julia Cameron
You are either losing your mind
or gaining your soul. -- Julia Cameron
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak. -- Julia Cameron
To write is to right things. A path will emerge. -- Julia Cameron
Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures. -- Julia Cameron
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. PETER DRUCKER -- Julia Cameron
Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves. -- Julia Cameron
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets. -- Julia Cameron
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) -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
The "if I had time" lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and that writing happens a sentence at a time. Sentences can happen in a moment. Enough stolen moments, enough stolen sentences, and a novel is born - without the luxury of time. -- Julia Cameron
Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise ... As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness. -- Julia Cameron
I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month. -- Julia Cameron
I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance. -- Julia Cameron
Today, I stand firm in my own worthiness. My dignity is solid and enduring. My faith is the rock on which I build my life. I dare to risk and I risk my daring. I am large enough to survive my losses and enjoy my gains. -- Julia Cameron
Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146) -- Julia Cameron
Workaholism is a block, not a building block. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master's message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24) -- Julia Cameron
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. -- Julia Cameron
Today, I take the time to get my friends and acquaintances current on the shifts in my inner life. I communicate clearly and openly. I allow time for people to adjust to the ways in which I have changed. I, too, adjust to the change in others. -- Julia Cameron
What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion? -- Julia Cameron
Our internal artist is always our creative child. -- Julia Cameron
As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it ... Children trust the power of words. -- Julia Cameron
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. -- Julia Cameron
In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others. -- Julia Cameron
When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend. -- Julia Cameron
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation. -- Julia Cameron
If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem. -- Julia Cameron
When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us. -- Julia Cameron
All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic. -- Julia Cameron
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours. -- Julia Cameron
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product. -- Julia Cameron
Writing is an act of cherishing ... It is an act of love. -- Julia Cameron
I am the running brook that soothes your soul. -- Julia Cameron
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.
-- Julia Cameron
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play. -- Julia Cameron
When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse. -- Julia Cameron
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it. -- Julia Cameron
A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox. -- Julia Cameron
Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively -- Julia Cameron
In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are. -- Julia Cameron
I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.' -- Julia Cameron
Leap, and the net will appear. -- Julia Cameron
It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain ... A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline. -- Julia Cameron
When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature -- Julia Cameron
Making art is an act of faith. -- Julia Cameron
Making our art, we make artful lives. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Each of us has an inner compass. Its voice calls us to our highest good. Sometimes it requires that we alter a longstanding but stifling situation. It is difficult to face the severing or alteration of a relationship even when we know such change is for the highest good. -- Julia Cameron
Today, I choose to cherish myself like a beloved child. I treat myself gently and with compassion. Practicing alert attention, I find delight in the small treasures of the day. I allow meaningful moments to assume enhanced perspective. Counting these blessings, I enrich my impoverished heart. -- Julia Cameron
The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me? -- Julia Cameron
I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others. -- Julia Cameron
A working artist is a playing artist. -- Julia Cameron
Walk with me to the edge of the city, / Take off your shoes and feel the earth. / Remember who you are. You are a star. / A mountain, that fountain in the sun. / Your heart is the velvet cave / Where birds sing. -- Julia Cameron
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. -- Julia Cameron
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to. -- Julia Cameron
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us. -- Julia Cameron
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure. -- Julia Cameron
Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back. -- Julia Cameron
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite
getting something down. -- Julia Cameron
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. -- Julia Cameron
When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. -- Julia Cameron
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment. -- Julia Cameron
Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway. -- Julia Cameron
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out. -- Julia Cameron
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels. -- Julia Cameron
It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism. -- Julia Cameron
There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures. -- Julia Cameron
What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of? -- Julia Cameron
Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good. -- Julia Cameron
My heart holds the world in tender awe. -- Julia Cameron
Why should we all use our creative power ... ? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. BRENDA UELAND -- Julia Cameron
'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life. -- Julia Cameron
You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club. -- Julia Cameron
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
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. -- Julia Cameron
Always remember that your Censor's negative opinions are not the truth. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO -- 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? -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
The act of making art is both scary and healing. Art brings light to places that have remained dark. Art brings perspective. Making art, at any level, is an act of courage and an expression of faith. -- Julia Cameron
We will experience the life we have the faith to experience. -- Julia Cameron
As you give yourself wholeheartedly to me, I am able to give back to you with greater abundance. Do not be a miser with your spirit. Commit to me. Spend energy on me and I will reward you with a life beyond your dreams. -- Julia Cameron
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time. -- Julia Cameron
Grab for time to write instead of wait for time. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing. -- Julia Cameron
My heart is a tiny town welcoming those who enter. -- Julia Cameron
In daily life there is an inner transition I can consciously practice. This is the transition from fear to faith. Faced with ambiguity and uncertainty, I can choose to believe things will work out for the best. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art. -- Julia Cameron
No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children. -- Julia Cameron
Today, I accept divine timing. I allow the pacing of the Universe to be my own. I align myself with the tempo of my life precisely as it is unfolding. -- Julia Cameron
In me, find your refreshment. In me, find your ease. Rest in me and refresh yourself. Let your fatigue slip away. My resources are yours now. You are plentifully supplied. -- Julia Cameron
I am the great comforter. I bring you solace, understanding, and hope. In times of despair, hope is what you have abandoned. -- Julia Cameron
Live with a quiet expectation of good. -- Julia Cameron
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one. -- Julia Cameron
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. -- Julia Cameron
Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear. -- Julia Cameron
It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound. -- Julia Cameron
Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity requires activity ... And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead. -- Julia Cameron
We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself. -- Julia Cameron
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. -- Julia Cameron
I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that. -- Julia Cameron
Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished. -- Julia Cameron
Art is born in attention. -- Julia Cameron
You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier. -- Julia Cameron
When I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. -- Julia Cameron
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing. -- Julia Cameron
It's important always to have a sense of wonder. -- Julia Cameron
You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith. -- Julia Cameron
Help your brother's boat across, and lo! your own has reached the shore. HINDU PROVERB -- Julia Cameron
Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" ... Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless. -- Julia Cameron
I realize that while people may indeed fail me and turn away, there is an underlying goodness to the Universe which brings to me new friends and new situations. These gifts heal and soothe me. I see the merciful hand of providence despite my pain. -- Julia Cameron
The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively. -- Julia Cameron
I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty. -- Julia Cameron
If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece. -- Julia Cameron
For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning. -- Julia Cameron
We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self. -- Julia Cameron
Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display. -- Julia Cameron
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. -- Julia Cameron
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time. -- Julia Cameron
As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well. -- Julia Cameron
The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves. -- Julia Cameron
There is a treadmill quality to workaholism. -- Julia Cameron
Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends. -- Julia Cameron
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 ... -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected. -- Julia Cameron
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ... -- Julia Cameron
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
It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth. -- Julia Cameron
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age. -- Julia Cameron
Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day. -- Julia Cameron
Kindness is always just as visible as the cruelty you choose to see. Your eye does the beholding. I say to you, this is a beautiful world. Choose to see it so. -- Julia Cameron
Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. -- Julia Cameron
Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility ... -- Julia Cameron
Writing just for the hell of it is heaven. -- Julia Cameron
When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement. -- Julia Cameron
Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence. -- Julia Cameron
In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do - spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery. -- Julia Cameron
We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will ... not where we will it. -- Julia Cameron
Reaching toward God has made me more me and not less me. I was always afraid you would erase me. Instead, you are helping me to sketch me in. -- Julia Cameron
Today, I am a clear stream flowing softly through green meadows. I make my way swiftly but gently to my goals. -- Julia Cameron
I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help. -- Julia Cameron
When we stop playing God, God can play through us. -- Julia Cameron
We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing. -- Julia Cameron
Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living. -- Julia Cameron
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling. -- Julia Cameron
Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships. -- Julia Cameron
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect. -- Julia Cameron
If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy. -- Julia Cameron
Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life. -- Julia Cameron
By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path. -- Julia Cameron
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy. -- Julia Cameron
Money cannot fill an empty soul. -- Julia Cameron
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny. -- Julia Cameron
We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. -- Julia Cameron
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. -- Julia Cameron
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. -- Julia Cameron
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.' -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen. -- Julia Cameron
As an artist, I do not need to be rich but I do need to be richly supported. I cannot allow my emotional and intellectual life to stagnate or the work will show it. My life will show it. -- Julia Cameron
Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. -- Julia Cameron
Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good. -- Julia Cameron
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play. -- Julia Cameron
Think of me as deep music. You can always hear me if you try. -- Julia Cameron
Allow me to bring you companions worthy of your love. -- Julia Cameron
It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy. -- Julia Cameron
So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones. -- Julia Cameron
Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work. -- Julia Cameron
You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67) -- Julia Cameron
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. -- Julia Cameron
The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body -- Julia Cameron
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. -- Julia Cameron
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. -- Julia Cameron
When the mind becomes quiet, you feel nourished. SWAMI CHIDVILASANANDA -- Julia Cameron
One of the reasons many of us avoid meditation is that we think of it as work - and work we may not do perfectly. What if we didn't have to do it perfectly? What if we didn't have to "do" it at all? What if we could rest - and let God do the rest? -- Julia Cameron
My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.' -- Julia Cameron
It is as though when we allow the slightest bit of positive inflow, we are rewarded by an increase in our creative outflow. -- Julia Cameron
I think I could learn a little patience with myself if I took a view of myself that included concepts like dormancy (instead of laziness), seed planting (instead of just scattered), gestation (instead of doing-something-right-this-second). -- Julia Cameron
My work unblocks people, and then I look at the work that they do, and I think, 'My God, how could they not have known they were talented? How could they not have known?' -- Julia Cameron
Work is a part of my identity but it is not my essence. -- Julia Cameron
The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety. -- Julia Cameron
When we move out of faith into the act ofJ creation, the universe is able to advance. -- Julia Cameron
I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others. -- Julia Cameron
Often God shuts a door in our face, And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go. CATHERINE MARSHALL -- Julia Cameron
FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR -- Julia Cameron
Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms. -- Julia Cameron
Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open -- Julia Cameron
Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls. -- Julia Cameron
When we write from the inside out rather than the outside in, when we write about what most concerns us rather than about what we feel might sell, we often write so well and so persuasively that the market responds to our efforts. -- Julia Cameron
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change. -- Julia Cameron
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't. -- Julia Cameron
The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can. -- Julia Cameron
I am due at the page. -- Julia Cameron
Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory. -- Julia Cameron
us a place to vent and a place to dream. They are intended for no eyes but our own. Virginia -- Julia Cameron
Creativity is not and never has been sensible. -- Julia Cameron
'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time. -- Julia Cameron
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order. -- Julia Cameron
Today, I release the urgency of outer events. I listen to the inner rhythm of God. I set my pace by divine guidance. The world and its busy agendas do not control my soul. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Do not feel inadequate to face your life. You are designed to face life, but not alone. You are intended to be a part of me. Allow me to go before you and prepare the way. -- Julia Cameron
When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it. -- Julia Cameron
I will clear for you a way and a path. Stay close to me. I hold the lantern, dispelling your anxiety. I am your chosen path. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it. -- Julia Cameron
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT -- Julia Cameron
Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it? -- Julia Cameron
Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it. -- Julia Cameron
Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself. -- Julia Cameron
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources. -- Julia Cameron
We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons ... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day. -- Julia Cameron
My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide. -- Julia Cameron
When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere. -- Julia Cameron
It's impossible to get better and look good at the same time. -- Julia Cameron
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- 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. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. -- Julia Cameron
Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life. -- Julia Cameron
Trying to do "one more thing," we do much less. -- Julia Cameron
There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority. -- Julia Cameron
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 always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished. -- Julia Cameron
The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self and nurturing the children in our care. -- Julia Cameron
What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist? -- Julia Cameron
There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect. -- Julia Cameron
I am not merely abundant. I am infinite. -- Julia Cameron
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves. -- Julia Cameron
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined. -- Julia Cameron
Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can. -- Julia Cameron
All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. -- Julia Cameron
Expect the universe to support your dream. It will. -- Julia Cameron
We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Love is the greatest medicine. I ask to be healing medicine for others. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved. -- Julia Cameron
the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone. -- Julia Cameron
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. -- Julia Cameron
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious. -- Julia Cameron
We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control. -- Julia Cameron
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD -- Julia Cameron
Boredom is just "What's the use?" in disguise. And "What's the use?" is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page. Put anything on the page. Put three pages of it on the page. -- Julia Cameron
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. -- Julia Cameron
I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people. -- Julia Cameron
We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by. -- Julia Cameron
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter. -- Julia Cameron
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. -- Julia Cameron
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. -- Julia Cameron
If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity. -- Julia Cameron
Fostering our children's creativity, we are fostering our children's spirituality as well. -- Julia Cameron
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. -- Julia Cameron
The reward for attention is always healing. -- Julia Cameron
We must remain ready to ask, open-minded enough to be led, and willing to believe despite our bouts of disbelief. Creativity is an act of faith, and we must be faithful to that faith, willing to share it to help others, and to be helped in return. -- Julia Cameron
The only anxiety is my imagined absence. I am never absent. I am present for you always. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity is a spiritual issue. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Did you write today? Then you're a writer today. -- Julia Cameron
Art? You just do it. MARTIN RITT -- Julia Cameron
Remember, there is a creative energy that wants to express itself through you; -- Julia Cameron
You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate. -- Julia Cameron
Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way. -- Julia Cameron
It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe. -- Julia Cameron
Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong. -- Julia Cameron
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. -- Julia Cameron
Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. -- Julia Cameron
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. -- Julia Cameron
People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process. -- Julia Cameron
As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you. -- Julia Cameron
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ... -- Julia Cameron
In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper <>ong>onong> our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well. -- Julia Cameron
