Quotes from Julia Cameron

Cuidando de si próprio, você alimenta sua conexão interna com o Grande Criador. Graças a essa conexão, a nossa criatividade desabrochará. Caminhos irão se abrir. Precisamos acreditar no Grande Criador e agir com fé.

Scraping a carrot, peeling an apple—these actions are quite literally food for thought.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. EDDIE CANTOR

When we chop and pare vegetables, we do so with our thoughts as well. Remember, art is an artist-brain pursuit. This brain is reached through rhythm—through rhyme, not reason. Scraping a carrot, peeling an apple—these actions are quite literally food for thought.

Creativity is the natural order of life, nothing we need to invent. Put simply, creativity is God's gift to us. Our use of it is our gift back to God. We are intended to be creative.

Whole plots can be stitched up while we sew. As artists, we can very literally reap what we sew.

What gives us true joy?

themselves as blocked internally, unable to take the risk of moving into new and more satisfying artistic territory.

When we love our writing, we find time for it. The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Remember the maxim "Leap, and the net will appear.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.... Take a risk a day-one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it. SUSAN JEFFERS

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we SHOULD do something else instead ... the Great Creator has gifted us with creativity. Our gift back is our use of it.

François Truffaut contended that critics were themselves blocked directors, as he had been when he was a critic.

This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

An act of art needs time to mature. Judged early, it may be judged incorrectly.

The fruit of your withdrawal is what you need to understand as a positive process, both painful and exhilarating.

took pen to page, praying for guidance.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

I took pen to page, praying for guidance.

the crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work.

Cómo iban a poder si su propio hábito de beber es algo a lo que quieren aferrarse? «Saber lo que prefieres, en lugar de decir sumisamente "amén" a lo que el mundo te dice que debieras preferir, significa que has mantenido tu alma con vida».

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.

Se medita para descubrir la propia identidad, el verdadero lugar que ocupamos en el universo

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.