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" In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening. "

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" Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. "

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" We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss. "

Julia Cameron

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" Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. "

" Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. "

" There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority. "

" I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels. "

" I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people. "

Julia Cameron

Think

Just

" I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning. "

" I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month. "

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I Can

" So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act. "

" When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter. "

" Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. "

" My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. "

" 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. "

" When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it. "

" I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. "

" 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. "

" A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox. "

" The tools of 'The Prosperous Heart' help people to embrace the life that they actually have, where they often find that they already have 'enough.' "

" My mother set us to an activity and let us be. "

Julia Cameron

Activity

Mother

" We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day. "

" When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. "

" Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. "