Julia Cameron Quotes

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

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.

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.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Balance is the key to my serenity. I attain balance by listening to my inner wisdom and to the wisdom of others. There is no situation in which I cannot find a point of balance. There is no circumstance in which I cannot find inner harmony. As I ask to be led into equilibrium and clarity, I will find that my answers come to me. I am wiser than I know, more capable of right action and attitudes than I yet believe. In every event, I seek the balance point of God's action through me.

For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

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.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

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.