589 Quotes by Julia Cameron

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we ‘should,’ our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

The Artist’s Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

My heart is a tiny town welcoming those who enter.

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, “Wait. Not now.” Sometimes the step is, “Work on something else for a while.” When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways – but it will come.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid’s pleasures.

Jealousy is always a mask for fear: fear that we aren’t able to get what we want; frustration that somebody else seems to be getting what is rightfully ours even if we are too frightened to reach for it. At its root, jealousy is a stingy emotion.

At it’s essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! LOUISE BOGAN.

It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO.