Quotes from Julia Cameron

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise...As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

Art is born in attention.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'

It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.

Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.

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

I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.

Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

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.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.