The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention
Julia Cameron
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea
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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 us.
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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.
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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.
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Serious art is born from serious play.
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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
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Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.
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The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
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Art is born in attention.
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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
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