The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Basic Principles: 1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. 2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny-looking, and he made… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
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… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
