Julia Cameron Quotes

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• The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
• Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
• Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
• Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
• Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
• Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
• 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…
• Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
• In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
• In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
• In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

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