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Creativity Quotes by Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron says creativity is as natural as a flower blooming, not a block that stops us. She notes that a leap of faith often starts a creative project. She also points out that money isn’t the key to creativity; it lives in the moment and in our spirit.

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Creativity is a spiritual issue.

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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

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Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

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“FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR”

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Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

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Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

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In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

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The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

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What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

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Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

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“Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.”

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We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

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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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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

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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…

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Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body…

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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it…

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All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The…

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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…

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Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're…

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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…

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We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us.…

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One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be…

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The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to…

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In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked…

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I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that…

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As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in…

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Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether…

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While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of…

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It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act…

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“Basic Principles: 1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. 2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling…

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“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans.…

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“Here’s what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny-looking, and he made…

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When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

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It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

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Our internal artist is always our creative child.

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When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude…

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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

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All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of…

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

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…

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing…

I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find…

All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.