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Julia Cameron
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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
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I
surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God
to guide me
in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's
timing. I release my
deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the
gentle yet often swift pacing of
God. As I open my heart to
God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As
I relax into God's
timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set
the
tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right
time and place,
open and available to God's opportunities.
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Most of us are not raised to
actively encounter our
destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children,
we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely
ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our
life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others,
that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they
have found theirs. Rather than being taught to ask ourselves
who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect,
trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are
brought up in our life as told to us by someone else!
In times of pain, when the future
is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have
learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always
the only safe place for me.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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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.
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I
ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each
growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the
tree will accommodate its loss, still growing and still beautiful.
It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking
on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and
surprise. . .
As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness. |
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Creativity
requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control. |
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We
will experience the life we have the faith to experience. |
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Julia Cameron has had
a remarkable career—and one which has in turn given remarkable
help to others. Herself an award-winning poet, playwright, and
filmmaker, she has written twenty-four books, ranging from her
widely-praised, hard-hitting crime novel The Dark Room to her
volumes of children's poems and prayers. Despite her extensive film
and theatre credits, which include such diverse work as "Miami
Vice" and the prize-winning romantic comedy "God's
Will" which she both wrote and directed, Cameron is best known
for her hugely successful works on creativity. The Artist's Way
has sold over two million copies worldwide, her follow-up
bestsellers The Vein of Gold, Walking in this World
and The Right to Write are likewise flagship books which are
taught in universities, churches, human potential centers and even
in tiny clusters in the jungles of Panama.
Credited with
having founded a new human potential movement which has enabled
millions to realize their creative dreams, Cameron eschews the title
"creativity expert," preferring to describe herself simply
as an "artist." "Artists have always mentored, I just
do it on a wider scale."
"My books are
not creative theory," she explains. "They spring straight
out of my own creative practice. In a sense, I am the floor sample
of my own tool kit. When we are unblocked we can have remarkable and
diverse adventures."
She knows whereof
she speaks. A writer since the age of eighteen, Cameron has
published highly praised short stories, award-winning essays and
hard-hitting political journalism. Her credits range from Rolling
Stone to The New York Times. As a teacher she has taught
everywhere from The Smithsonian to Esalen, The New York Times
to Northwestern University where she served as writer in residence
in film.
(from her website
at theartistsway.com)
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