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? Julia Cameron More Quotes by Julia Cameron More Quotes From Julia Cameron We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves. Julia Cameron originality way art I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business. Julia Cameron jobs believe moving 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. Julia Cameron listening heart love-is What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist? Julia Cameron creative goal thinking Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. Julia Cameron creativity creative heart Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life. Julia Cameron creativity Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything. Julia Cameron clothes practice long Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time. Julia Cameron creativity practice spiritual Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276) Julia Cameron special spiritual ordinary I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb. Julia Cameron bombs creativity writing Leap, and the net appears. Julia Cameron leap The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves. Julia Cameron creativity essentials lying Making art is an act of faith. Julia Cameron art-is art There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures. Julia Cameron flower exercise two Did you write today? Then you're a writer today. Julia Cameron writing today Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change. Julia Cameron injury medicine writing You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club. Julia Cameron horse hard-times disappointment People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined. Julia Cameron creativity believe reality Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong. Julia Cameron make-me-strong objects strong Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary. Julia Cameron gestation-period creativity ideas
