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Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

Julia Cameron

Writing, Giving, Environment

Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.13, Penguin

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

Julia Cameron

Writing, Path, Right Thing

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

Julia Cameron

Book, Home, Writing

Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

Julia Cameron

Spiritual, Writing, Practice

"The Artist's Way". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

Julia Cameron

Writing, Over You, May

"The Artist's Way: An Interview With Julia Cameron". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process.

Julia Cameron

Spiritual, Pain, Writing

Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

Julia Cameron

Writing, Thinking, House

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

Julia Cameron

Writing, Mind, Want

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

Julia Cameron

Writing, Cherish, Acts Of Love

Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.20, Penguin

Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

Julia Cameron

Drama, Rain, Writing

Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin