Julia Cameron Quotes - Page 8

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

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist-hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.

Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?

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

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.

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

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

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

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

As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.