The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
To effect a creative recovery, we must undergo a time of mourning. In dealing with the suicide of the “nice” self we have been making do with, we find a certain amount of grief to be essential. Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth. Without this creative moistening, we may remain barren. We must allow the bolt of pain to strike us. Rem
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We meditate to discover our own identity, our right place in the scheme of the universe. Through meditation, we acquire and eventually acknowledge our connection to an inner power source that has the ability to transform our outer world. In other words, meditation gives us not only the light of insight but also the power for expansive change.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
I learned to get out of the way and let that creative force work through me. I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb. It wasn’t so tricky, and it didn’t blow up on me anymore. I didn’t have to be in the mood. I didn’t have to take my emotional t
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. C. G. JUNG
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
For many of us, raised to believe that money is the real source of security, a dependence on God feels foolhardy, suicidal, even laughable. When we consider the lilies of the fields, we think they are quaint, too out of it for the modern world. We’re the ones who keep clothes on our backs. We’re the ones who buy the groceries. And we will pursue
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist—hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Anyone who faithfully writes morning pages will be led to a connection with a source of wisdom within. When I am stuck with a painful situation or problem that I don’t think I know how to handle, I will go to the pages and ask for guidance.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
One way we listen is by writing our morning pages. At night, before we fall asleep, we can list areas in which we need guidance. In the morning, writing on these same topics, we find ourselves seeing previously unseen avenues of approach. Experiment with this two-step process: ask for answers in the evening; listen for answers in the morning. Be op
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