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There is no fact, no detail of our life too sordid for God's intervention. God has seen murder. God has seen rape. God has seen drug addiction's and alcoholism's utter degradation. God is available to us no matter what our circumstances. God can find us in a crack house. God can find us crumpled in a doorway or cowering on a park bench. We need only reach out to discover that God reaches back. We are led a step at a time even when we feel we are alone. Sometimes God talks to us through people. Sometimes God reaches us through circumstances or coincidence. God has a million ways to reach out to us, and when we are open to it, we begin to sense the touch of God coming to us from all directions.

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Julia Cameron God

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)

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Julia Cameron God Spirituality

Basic Principles:1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves.3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives.4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.5. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

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Julia Cameron Creativity Divine Dreams Flow God Yearnings

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

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Julia Cameron Death Dying Life Living

Leap, and the net will appear.

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Julia Cameron Faith

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.

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Julia Cameron Faith Perseverance

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

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Julia Cameron Faith

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.

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Julia Cameron Dreams Faith Goals

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

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Julia Cameron Faith

We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us both to our own insights and to a higher and deeper level of inner guidance.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. We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

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Julia Cameron Identity Writing

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

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Julia Cameron Writing Writing Life

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.

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Julia Cameron Writing Writing Process

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

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Julia Cameron Writing Writing Process

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.

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Julia Cameron Creativity Writing

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

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Julia Cameron Spirituality Writing

Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taugh to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill 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. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if...If we had known who we really were.

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Julia Cameron Believe Chance Courage Identity Inspiration

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

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Julia Cameron Community Connection Continuity Disconnection Friendships Loneliness Relationships

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)

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Julia Cameron Interconnectedness Spiritual Experience Spirituality Unity

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it--pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. Artistic fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions--and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions.

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Julia Cameron Fear

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

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Julia Cameron Artists Life Creative Soul Creative Work Creativity Fame Drug Soul

Serious art is born from serious play.

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Julia Cameron Art

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.

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Julia Cameron Art Artist Work

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

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Julia Cameron Art 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.

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Julia Cameron Art Artistic Courage Creativity Julia Cameron Make Art Morning Pages On Writing The Artists Way Writing

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

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Julia Cameron Art Artists Life Creative Flow Creativity On Writing Writing

I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.

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Julia Cameron Creativity Self Help

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.

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Julia Cameron Artistic Integrity Creativity Julia Cameron Making Art Morning Pages On Writing The Artists Way Writing

Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. 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 rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.

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Julia Cameron Creativity Writing Writing Process

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction—which is naive and misplaced—that being published has to do with being “good” while not being published has to do with being “amateur.” ...“Did you write today?”“Yes.”“Then you’re a writer today.”It would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It’s not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final “credit” must come from.

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Julia Cameron Creativity Credibility Writers On Writing Writing

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

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Julia Cameron Creativity Timelessness

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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Julia Cameron Art Creativity Mysticism

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

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Julia Cameron Prayer

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.

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Julia Cameron Art Growth Inspirational

The reward for attention is always healing.

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Julia Cameron Healing

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

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Julia Cameron Anger

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

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Julia Cameron Health

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.

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Julia Cameron Creative Process Novel Writing Writing Process

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.

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Julia Cameron Perseverance Profession

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

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Julia Cameron Ego Writing Writing Process

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

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Julia Cameron Control Creative
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