589 Quotes by Julia Cameron

When people ask, “Why do we write morning pages?” I joke, “To get to the other side.” They think I am kidding, but I’m not. Morning pages do get us to the other side: the other side of our fear, of our negativity, of our moods. Above all, they get us beyond our Censor. Beyond the reach of the Censor’s babble we find our own quiet center, the place where we hear the still, small voice that is at once our creator’s and our own.

Do not feel inadequate to face your life. You are designed to face life, but not alone. You are intended to be a part of me. Allow me to go before you and prepare the way.

We are not, as we had told ourselves, the victim of circumstances. We played an active part in our own undoing.

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.

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

The success of Morning Pages hinges on our doing them as close to awakening as we can.

Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.

Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement.

We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.