Julia Cameron Quotes About Creativity
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In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
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The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.
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Creativity is a spiritual issue.
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Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
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Creativity is not and never has been sensible.
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You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
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Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
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In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.
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Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
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If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
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In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
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Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.
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Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
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When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil 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.
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Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.
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Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
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Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.
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The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
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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.
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When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
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Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
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