“Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
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Famous Julia Cameron Quotes
Blessings (1998)
Context: Focused on our good, focused on our abundance we naturally attract more of the same. This is spiritual law. Our consciousness is creative. 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?
“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: 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. <!-- p. 195
Julia Cameron Quotes about love
“The growth of one blesses all. I am committed to grow in love.”
Blessings (1998)
Context: The growth of one blesses all. I am committed to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
“When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature.”
Blessings (1998)
Context: When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
Blessings (1998)
Context: When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
Blessings (1998)
Context: 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 Quotes about life
“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
Variant: Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness.
Source: The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: "And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!" It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.
“Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive.”
Blessings (1998)
Context: Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing."
Julia Cameron Quotes
“I honor my importance and the importance of others.”
Blessings (1998)
Context: I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.
“Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: 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 book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: 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. <!-- p. 195
“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way (1992), p. xxv
Blessings (1998)
Context: I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.”
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way (1992)
“Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.”
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)”
Source: God is No Laughing Matter
“Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
Source: The Artist's Way
“Art? You just do it. MARTIN RITT”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron book The Right to Write
Source: The Right to Write (1998)
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist call this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue.
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. No. We should not.
In Inspirations : Meditations from The Artist's Way (2001), Cameron extends the above statement with further remarks: Focused on process, our creative life retains a sense of adventure. Focused on product, the same creative life can feel foolish or barren. We inherit the obsession with product and the idea that art produces finished product from our consumer-oriented society. This focus creates a great deal of creative block.
The Artist's Way (1992)
Inspirations : Meditations from The Artist's Way (2001), "Invocation"
