Quotes from Julia Cameron

Be particularly alert to any suggestion that you have become selfish or different. (These are red-alert words for us. They are attempts to leverage us back into our old ways for the sake of someone else's comfort, not our own.)

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Una vez a la semana, regálate una experiencia lúdica en solitario. Haz algo que te resulte muy placentero. Opta por algo divertido, algo que estimule tu imaginación. Planifica la cita con antelación con el fin de esperarla con expectación. Permítete ser juguetón. Sé joven de espíritu.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. FRIEDRICH ENGELS

If only we could give ourselves permission to write "badly," so many of us would write very well indeed.

atrapados entre el sueño de la acción y el miedo al fracaso, es donde nacen los artistas sombra.

Nada tiene una influencia psicológica más poderosa sobre el entorno y especialmente sobre los hijos que la vida no vivida de los padres». CARL GUSTAV JUNG

As blocked creatives, we are willing to go to almost any lengths to remain blocked. As frightening and abusive as life with a crazymaker is, we find it far less threatening than the challenge of a creative life of our own.

It's my experience that we're much more afraid that there might be a God than we are that there might not be.

alguien que se esconde entre las sombras, temeroso de dar un paso y de exponer su sueño a la luz, por miedo a que ese contacto lo haga desintegrarse.

El arte de escuchar nos proporciona sanación, perspicacia y lucidez. Nos regala alegría y perspectiva. Por encima de todo, nos proporciona conexión.

terra incognita

For me, writing is like a good pair of pajamas -- comfortable. In our culture, writing is more often costumed up in a military outfit. We want our sentences to march in neat little rows, like well-behaved boarding-school children.

If we let ourselves notice, writing feels collaborative. It is a dance between reality and us as an observer.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. . . . When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. WILLIAM BAZIOTES

This is extravagant but so is God

Aprendí a quitarme de en medio y a dejar que esa energía vital se expresara a través de mí.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't ... your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you are doing is just plain junk ... stop judging yourself and just let yourself write.

En esencia, nuestras múltiples creencias negativas revelan una creencia negativa central: a favor de otro, debemos abandonar un sueño bueno y deseado.

Para vivir una vida creativa debemos perder el miedo a estar equivocados».

It is very difficult to complain about a situation morning after morning, month after month, without being moved to constructive action.

si ser artista te parece demasiado bueno para ser verdad, te inventarás un precio a pagar por ese sueño que te resultará inasequible.

Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft.

creencia negativa central: a favor de otro, debemos abandonar un sueño bueno y deseado.