Quotes from Julia Cameron

Spending time in solitude with your artist child is essential to self-nurturing.

You are likely to find yourself avoiding your artist dates. Recognize this resistance as a fear of intimacy—self-intimacy

The myth that we must have "time"—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for "more," we are forever discounting what is offered.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. KABIR

the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone.

Today, I am a clear stream flowing softly through green meadows. I make my way swiftly but gently to my goals.

if I had enough time" is the unstated sentence "to hear myself think." In other words, we imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook—if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order . . . the continuous thread of revelation. EUDORA WELT

Do not be discouraged by the ways in which you fall short. Every shortcoming is to me an opportunity for your growth.

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

No matter what your age or your life path… it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

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

The primary imagination I hold to be the Living Power. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.   KABIR

Understand that WHAT must come before the HOW. First choose WHAT you would do. The HOW usually falls into place of itself.

Wherever you are is the entry point," and this is always true with writing. Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! LOUISE BOGAN   Your

going sane feels just like going crazy.

As you give yourself wholeheartedly to me, I am able to give back to you with greater abundance. Do not be a miser with your spirit. Commit to me. Spend energy on me and I will reward you with a life beyond your dreams.

Today, I choose to cherish myself like a beloved child. I treat myself gently and with compassion. Practicing alert attention, I find delight in the small treasures of the day. I allow meaningful moments to assume enhanced perspective. Counting these blessings, I enrich my impoverished heart.

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

If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.

The world is a forest of verdant possibility. No one person controls my happiness. No one person is the source of my joy. I am rooted in universal flow. My needs for love and affection are met by many sources. I am blessed by the ability to receive love through many channels. I open my heart to the love that is offered to me by multiple sources. My heart is a mountain meadow fed by many streams.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.