Introduction
The Promised Land (1912)
“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”
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Julia Cameron
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The Artist's Way
Source: The Artist's Way
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