The Artist’s Way (1992)｜ Inspirational Quotes by Julia Cameron – Wise Library 1985

The Artist’s Way｜ Inspirational Quotes by Julia Cameron

1. “In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

2. “Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention…the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

3.“Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.”

4. “Art is born in attention.”
5. “We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.”
6. “The reward for attention is always healing. It may begin as the healing of a particular pain—the lost lover, the sickly child, the shattered dream. But what is healed, finally, is the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, “unutterably alone.” More than anything else, attention is an act of connection.”

突然懂了為什麼人們說寄情工作可以療傷，不是工作療傷，而是你專注的時候，專注於當下，你只存在於在當下，沒有過去或未來，沒有傷痛。
7. “the unlived life is not worth examining.”

8. “Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see “creator” as the literal term for “artist”. I am suggesting you take the term “creator” quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist-to-artist with the Great Creator. Accepting this concept can greatly expand your creative possibilities.” 

9. “Fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page. Put anything on the page. Put three pages of it on the page.”

10.“Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.”

▲act out— phrasal verb :  to behave badly because you are unhappy or upset , often in ways that you are not aware of

11.“All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.”

▲audacity n.  courage or confidence of a kind that other people find shocking or rude

12. “Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.”

13.“Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth. …..Remember, this is useful pain; lightning illuminates.” “Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.”

14. “Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.”

15.“There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.”

16.“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”

17. “There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ”
“…when we move out of faith into the act ofJ creation, the universe is able to advance.”

茱莉亞·卡麥隆

出生： 1948 年 3 月 4 日（70歲），美國伊利諾州利伯蒂維爾
配偶： 馬丁·史柯西斯 (結婚於 1975 年–1977 年)
電影： God’s Will， 美國男孩：史蒂芬·普林斯檔案
專輯： Libérez votre créativité – osez dire oui à la vie!

Julia Cameron is famed for her book The Artist’s Way (1992). She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays. She is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist.

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