the artist's way

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> the artist's way by julia cameron
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> learn to call things by the right names
> do not call the inability to start laziness. call it fear.
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> artist date -- block out 2 hours a week to take your inner artist
> out for a date. allow no interlopers
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> writing goes much better when we don't work at it so much, when we
> give ourselves permission to just hang out on the page. don't try
> to write too carefully.
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> we all have time to write. we have time to write the minute we are
> willing to write badly. the obsession with time is really an
> obsession with perfection. write with love, not with a net
> underneath to protect u.
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> art is not putting something up but putting something down.書下
> ろし.
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> wanting to know where we are going is often how we fail to go
> anywhere at all
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> anything worth doing is worth doing badly. once we accept this, our
> options widen.
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> the unexamined life is not worth living, the unlived life is not
> worth examining
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> most of us are practiced at taking ourselves out of risk.
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> connect to a world outside of us, so as to lose the obsessive self-
> focus of self-exploration.
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> we must be vigilant. we must be alert. we cannot control everyone
> around us, but we can learn whose company is good for us and whose
> company causes us to shrivel and shrink.
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> more good stuff are destroyed by bad criticism than bad stuff helped
> by good criticism
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> part of husbanding our talent lies in finding those who are generous
> enough to reflect us back as talented
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> daily writing, writing simply for the sake of writing, is like
> keeping a pot of soup on the back of the stove: always there ready
> to be tasted, to be added to, nourishing, savory, life-sustaining.
> honesty, observation and imagination are the three ingredients.
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> hatching an idea is like baking bread. need time to rise. poke too
> much, check too much at the beginning and it will not rise
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> life is non-linear; leap, the next net will appear
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> the trick is setting the jumps low enough that our internal artist
> (or child) can be lured into action, into cooperation.
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> each day must remain an exploratory expedition. we must remain
> tourists on our home terrain
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> observed closely enough, all of life is interesting. small moments
> have large impact. when we practice the art of close observation, we
> gain an emotional palette that has more shades, more possibilities,
> than the screaming extremes of black and white headlines declaring
> catastrophe and crisis.
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> Allow errors. they will reveal as insights later.
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> complete the following sentence : If I don't have to do it
> perfectly, I would try ____________.
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> if we are engaged in making something new, we are less invested in
> the reception of something old.
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> most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is
> because we feel safe that way. we may not be happy but we know what
> we are -- unhappy.
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> we become frightened when we have "big decision" to make. we must
> train ourselves to think small. inch ahead in small steps, making
> small decisions.
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> when we r unable to work, we can work at the work of getting ready
> to work.
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> as an artist, we wish we could always work well. but, "well" we
> can't control. we do have control of " always". we keep working on
> our art and let the well appear as it happens.
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> it is so easy to rush ahead into fear and panic. it is so easy to
> miss the beauty that awaits us in the here and now.
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> so much of life is like taking a photograph. we must pause to catch
> the moment and savour our delight.
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> real artists make art. if u are making art, u are a real artist.
> over time, u may become a better one, more skilled in your craft.
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> we r stucked not because lack of ideas. it's because we have too
> many ideas. the ideas get stucked trying to get out. we need to
> extract them slowly and gently
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> routinely create art: write, draw, paint, anything. do not wait for
> the moment of creative insight. u have to keep doing.
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> jealously is always a mask for fear. as a root, jealousy is a
> stingy emotion.
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> creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-
> acceptance
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> centre stage belongs to people who are willing to move there
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> writing to ourselves, we r taking notes as to the notes we are
> playing. we r hearing ourselves as we sing our song. we r
> instrumental in our own change, not merely players but conductors/
> composers as well
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> start with being nice to yourself. when we place ourselves too low
> in the pecking order, we feel henpacked and we feel peckish. when we
> undervalue ourselves, we bury ourselves in lives not our own.
> meeting the expectations of others, we may misplace our own values.
> violating our true selves, we soon feel worthless and undeserving.
> when we are what we truly are and say what we truly mean, we stop
> shouldering the responsibility for everyone else's shortfalls and
> become accountable to ourselves.
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> the phrase "it would take a miracle" is often used to refuse
> inviting one
> if we do not act in the direction of our dream, we are only dreaming
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> when we shift our inner statement from 'i'd love to' to 'i am going
> to', we shift out of victim to adventurer
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> when we surrender to becoming what we are meant to be instead of
> trying to convince the world of who we think we are, we find our
> proper shoes and can walk in them comfortably.
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> how do we know how large we can be if we do not know how large we are?
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> creativity requires activity.
> take small daily action instead of indulging in the big question
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> artificial acceptance of people and circumstances we resent makes us
> ill tempered. a little honest self-love does wonders
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> it is all too easy for our life to be dictated to us by others. we
> can so easily wait to be chosen. such passivity invites despair.
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> a daily habit cures proscrastination
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> when we are focused on the possible, we are able to ignore the
> probable. the odds of publishing a novel are a hell of a lot higher
> if u have written a novel.
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> when we are rejected, we must ask, "what next?", and not, "why me?"
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> the ego hates to rest. we must serve our souls, not our egos. our
> souls need rest. so often we try to gird ourselves to face a harsh
> and difficult world when we might instead gentle both ourselves and
> our world just by slowing down.
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> fear asks that we check something for clarity. fear requires action,
> not assurance.
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> life is made of small sweetnesses, and they come to us when we are
> willing to be little, instead of big.
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> in times of pain, when future is terrifying to contemplate and past
> painful to remember, NOW is a good place to be. each moment, taken
> alone, was always bearable.
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> when faced with a loss, immediately take one small action to support
> your artist. like a small child, out artist needs mommying.
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