Quotes from Julia Cameron

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones.

I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month.

We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

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

A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox.

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.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

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.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

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

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.