Top 400 Julia Cameron Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “You are either losing your mind – or gaining your soul.”

— Julia Cameron

202. “I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.”

— Julia Cameron

203. “Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.”

— Julia Cameron

204. “Boredom is just “What’s the use?” in disguise. And “What’s the use?” is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair.”

— Julia Cameron

205. “When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.”

— Julia Cameron

206. “When people ask, “Why do we write morning pages?” I joke, “To get to the other side.” They think I am kidding, but I’m not. Morning pages do get us to the other side: the other side of our fear, of our negativity, of our moods. Above all, they get us beyond our Censor. Beyond the reach of the Censor’s babble we find our own quiet center, the place where we hear the still, small voice that is at once our creator’s and our own.”

— Julia Cameron

207. “We knew each other in Taos, New Mexico, where a deep source of our creativity sprung. I know her now also in Santa Fe, walking her dog through the chamisa.”

— Julia Cameron

208. “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.”

— Julia Cameron

209. “The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.”

— Julia Cameron

210. “Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.”

— Julia Cameron

211. “If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we ‘should,’ our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.”

— Julia Cameron

212. “The reward for attention is always healing. It may begin as the healing of a particular pain – the lost lover, the sickly child, the shattered dream. But what is healed, finally, is the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, “unutterably alone.” More than anything else, attention is an act of connection.”

— Julia Cameron

213. “When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.”

— Julia Cameron

214. “It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.”

— Julia Cameron

215. “Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices – at any age – we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.”

— Julia Cameron

216. “In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.”

— Julia Cameron

217. “Work is a part of my identity but it is not my essence.”

— Julia Cameron

218. “The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain. We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us from our fellows. As we clarify our perceptions, we lose our misconceptions. As we eliminate ambiguity, we lose illusion as well. We arrive at clarity, and clarity creates change.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

220. “The world is a forest of verdant possibility. No one person controls my happiness. No one person is the source of my joy. I am rooted in universal flow. My needs for love and affection are met by many sources. I am blessed by the ability to receive love through many channels. I open my heart to the love that is offered to me by multiple sources. My heart is a mountain meadow fed by many streams.”

— Julia Cameron

221. “Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.”

— Julia Cameron

222. “Our internal artist is always our creative child.”

— Julia Cameron

223. “Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.”

— Julia Cameron

224. “Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.”

— Julia Cameron

225. “The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.”

— Julia Cameron

226. “Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”

— Julia Cameron

227. “We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don’t.”

— Julia Cameron

228. “Don’t try to ‘fix’ the child’s boredom – rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.”

— Julia Cameron

229. “Each of us has an inner compass. Its voice calls us to our highest good. Sometimes it requires that we alter a longstanding but stifling situation. It is difficult to face the severing or alteration of a relationship even when we know such change is for the highest good.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

231. “All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.”

— Julia Cameron

232. “It hurts like hell when the world won’t invest in you. But it’s excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don’t believe and invest in yourself.”

— Julia Cameron

233. “No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. MINOR WHITE.”

— Julia Cameron

234. “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. EMMA GOLDMAN.”

— Julia Cameron

235. “All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

237. “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

238. “Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

242. “Your depression is exhaustion. Like Atlas, you try to carry this world on your own shoulders. This was never my intention. Allow me to carry the world.”

— Julia Cameron

243. “Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.”

— Julia Cameron

244. “As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.”

— Julia Cameron

245. “Often, creativity is blocked by our falling in with other people’s plans for us. We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we should do something else instead.”

— Julia Cameron

246. “I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.”

— Julia Cameron

247. “You cannot pray a prayer I cannot hear. There is no wrong way to reach out to me.”

— Julia Cameron

248. “Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” THE TALMUD.”

— Julia Cameron

249. “It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.”

— Julia Cameron

250. “If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.”

— Julia Cameron