Top 400 Julia Cameron Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.”

— Julia Cameron

252. “When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.”

— Julia Cameron

253. “We go into parenting, and we discover that we don’t have the answers. We are at a loss.”

— Julia Cameron

254. “Because if you’re trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.”

— Julia Cameron

255. “Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.”

— Julia Cameron

256. “There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.”

— Julia Cameron

257. “When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.”

— Julia Cameron

258. “Art? You just do it. MARTIN RITT.”

— Julia Cameron

259. “If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.”

— Julia Cameron

260. “Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.”

— Julia Cameron

261. “I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.”

— Julia Cameron

262. “We don’t always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...”

— Julia Cameron

263. “Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.”

— Julia Cameron

264. “Without being acknowledged, they are often used as batteries by their families and friends, who feel free to both use their creative energies and disparage them.”

— Julia Cameron

265. “Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.”

— Julia Cameron

266. “Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.”

— Julia Cameron

267. “Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn’t matter. Relying on that force does.”

— Julia Cameron

268. “It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.”

— Julia Cameron

269. “When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.”

— Julia Cameron

270. “What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.”

— Julia Cameron

271. “Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.”

— Julia Cameron

272. “Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement.”

— Julia Cameron

273. “Creativity is God’s will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.”

— Julia Cameron

274. “Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.”

— Julia Cameron

275. “Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.”

— Julia Cameron

276. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. – MOTHER TERESA.”

— Julia Cameron

277. “Art is born in attention.”

— Julia Cameron

278. “When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature.”

— Julia Cameron

279. “Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.”

— Julia Cameron

280. “If you want to write a novel, it’s the Divine mind wanting to express.”

— Julia Cameron

281. “Today, I release the urgency of outer events. I listen to the inner rhythm of God. I set my pace by divine guidance. The world and its busy agendas do not control my soul.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

283. “I am not merely abundant. I am infinite.”

— Julia Cameron

284. “Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.”

— Julia Cameron

285. “As an artist, I do not need to be rich but I do need to be richly supported. I cannot allow my emotional and intellectual life to stagnate or the work will show it. My life will show it.”

— Julia Cameron

286. “We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS.”

— Julia Cameron

287. “We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.”

— Julia Cameron

288. “I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.”

— Julia Cameron

289. “You are asked to keep a ledger – a small notebook will do – of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.”

— Julia Cameron

290. “Every child is born an artist. The trick is remaining one as an adult.”

— Julia Cameron

291. “When the mind becomes quiet, you feel nourished. SWAMI CHIDVILASANANDA.”

— Julia Cameron

292. “Our modern ideas of ‘functioning’ through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.”

— Julia Cameron

293. “Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. KABIR.”

— Julia Cameron

294. “In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

296. “Today, I welcome the winds of change. Today I cooperate with the new experiences coming to my soul.”

— Julia Cameron

297. “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.”

— Julia Cameron

298. “Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.”

— Julia Cameron

299. “Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.”

— Julia Cameron

300. “Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. HENRY MILLER.”

— Julia Cameron