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than discipline. Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is spiritual

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ing it. Then fasten your seat belt.

rowth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back.

Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

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Over any extended period of time, being an artist requires enthusiasm more

commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process, a loving recogn

all the creativity around us.

• In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time
  and care to cultivate it.


• I have said before that creativity is a spiritual issue. Any progress is made
  by leaps of faith, some small and some large.


• I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do
  something. Say, instead, that you are do
  The most remarkable things follow.

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• The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for
  beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration lead
  accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and
  scary

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When I first started to read it, I had the misconception that the book, her
workshops, and her exercises were for “artists.” Artists, in my mind, were
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e first three to get a sense of where she is coming from:

1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy. Pure creative
   energy.

I think of Julia Cameron, one thing comes to

y, hich has been described as the “seminal book on the subject of creativity

nt rs, musicians, writers, anybody whose main focus in life is t

r y into the book, it became clear that Julia Cameron’s popula

f t that she can help any of us use our creativity in dealing with our careers,

, or personal interests, regardless of our primary interest in life

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