Top 400 Julia Cameron Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Without them, our dreams may remain terra incognita. I know mine did. Using them, the light of insight is coupled with the power for expansive.”

— Julia Cameron

352. “Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them, we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.”

— Julia Cameron

353. “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.”

— Julia Cameron

354. “When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about.”

— Julia Cameron

355. “I am due at the page.”

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356. “As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.”

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357. “We must remain ready to ask, open-minded enough to be led, and willing to believe despite our bouts of disbelief. Creativity is an act of faith, and we must be faithful to that faith, willing to share it to help others, and to be helped in return.”

— Julia Cameron

358. “I am the running brook that soothes your soul.”

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359. “My heart holds the world in tender awe.”

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360. “I realize that while people may indeed fail me and turn away, there is an underlying goodness to the Universe which brings to me new friends and new situations. These gifts heal and soothe me. I see the merciful hand of providence despite my pain.”

— Julia Cameron

361. “I do not put in long hours at the keys – or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.”

— Julia Cameron

362. “A working artist is a playing artist.”

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363. “If we are invested in a writing life – as opposed to a writing career – then we are in it for the process and not the product.”

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364. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. PABLO PICASSO.”

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365. “To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue.”

— Julia Cameron

366. “Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it.”

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367. “We may have spent years and considerable energy getting to the top of our profession, only to be struck by a bout of inner restlessness and the unshakable, unpalatable, and unwelcome conviction that our life no longer fits us and we must try to find a new one. Tempted to “ditch everything,” we may fantasize running off to the South of France or the north of Africa.”

— Julia Cameron

368. “Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. JAMES BALDWIN.”

— Julia Cameron

369. “We are always the same age inside. – GERTRUDE STEIN.”

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370. “Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size. MARK TWAIN.”

— Julia Cameron

371. “I will clear for you a way and a path. Stay close to me. I hold the lantern, dispelling your anxiety. I am your chosen path.”

— Julia Cameron

372. “The perfectionist writes, paints, creates with one eye on her audience. Instead of enjoying the process, the perfectionist is constantly grading the results. The perfectionist has married the logic side of the brain.”

— Julia Cameron

373. “I began to pray for help with what I needed and wanted as well as for the knowledge of God’s will for me and the power to carry it out. Immediately, I felt a heightened sense of spiritual companionship.”

— Julia Cameron

374. “There is just this dream, this feeling, this urge, this desire. There is seldom any real proof, but the dream lives on.”

— Julia Cameron

375. “I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there’s nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.”

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376. “Gently set all ego aside and be a channel for my thinking to come into the world.”

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377. “My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart’s happiest guide.”

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378. “Real” artists are people who have learned to create despite their fears. They.”

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379. “I can be satisfied by small steps – in fact, very satisfied.”

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380. “Today, with humility and openness I ask for spiritual intervention in my earthly affairs. I ask for help, and, in the asking, it appears.”

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381. “Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. CLAUDE BERNARD.”

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382. “Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered prayer. DR. JOSEPH MURPHY.”

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383. “YOU PRAY for guidance and then doubt that I answer your prayers. I am always listening, always ready to guide you when you will be led.”

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384. “When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, “Wait. Not now.” Sometimes the step is, “Work on something else for a while.” When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways – but it will come.”

— Julia Cameron

385. “Fostering our children’s creativity, we are fostering our children’s spirituality as well.”

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386. “Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.”

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387. “The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.”

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388. “I think that I need to learn a few different modalities of change: gradual and grounded like a seed growing and, too, when it is time to leap lest I be left hanging over a chasm clutching frantically to either side. In other words, I may need to listen to guidance about when to edge forward and when to leap forward. What clearly does not serve me is trying to meet every situation with an obdurate set mode.”

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389. “Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. AARON COPLAND All.”

— Julia Cameron

390. “Today, I view myself as a pilgrim. I take stock of the distances I have traveled. I take time to map the route I now choose.”

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391. “It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.”

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392. “It is as though when we allow the slightest bit of positive inflow, we are rewarded by an increase in our creative outflow.”

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393. “Allow me to bring you companions worthy of your love.”

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394. “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE.”

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395. “Today, I am flexible and evolutionary. I am a meadow with varied seasons and wealth in each one. I am blessed with abundance and I am abundant in the blessings that I offer to others. The right to change is a blessing that I offer to my friends. We are miners striking new ore at every depth.”

— Julia Cameron

396. “Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.”

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397. “The obsession with time is really an obsession with perfection.”

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398. “My heart is a tiny town welcoming those who enter.”

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399. “Live with a quiet expectation of good.”

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400. “Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific, an origin from which work flows.”

— Julia Cameron