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“Atheists loved to use that term to describe some shadowy force that somehow controlled human destiny, but what the hell did they think the universe was? Did they think the stars and nebulae took an interest in their doings, and if they really meant God, why couldn’t they just say so?”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Prime

“What do I need to know?” “What do I need to try?” “What do I need to accept?” “What do I need to do?”
― Julia Cameron, The Miracle of Morning Pages: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Most Important Artist's Way Tool

“By its very nature, discipline is rooted in self-admiration. (Think of discipline as a battery, useful but short-lived.) We admire ourselves for being so wonderful. The discipline itself, not the creative outflow, becomes the point.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“I am a talented person.
I have a right to be an artist.
I am a good person and a good artist.
Creativity is a blessing I accept.
My creativity blesses others.
My creativity is appreciated. I now treat myself and my creativity more gently. I now treat myself and my creativity more generously. I now share my creativity more openly.
I now accept hope.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“I now act affirmatively.
I now accept creative recovery.
I now allow myself to heal.
I now accept God’s help unfolding my life.
I now believe God loves artists.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process, a loving recognition of all the creativity around us.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“When well-meaning parents and friends push marriage or nine-to-five or anything on us that doesn’t evolve in a way that allows for our art to continue, we will react as if we are fighting for our lives—we are.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Henri Nouwen,”
― Ronald Rolheiser, Wrestling with God: Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human

“The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“At the same time that Irenaeus is writing, the Pagan philosopher Celsus only knows of Christian gospels which are all attributed to women.33”
― Peter Gandy, The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom

“Mary is an immensely important figure in Gnostic mythology, because she is Jesus’ consort and represents the Christian Goddess Sophia. Literalist Christians have completely erased Sophia from Christianity, but she was once as important a figure as Jesus”
― Peter Gandy, The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom

“Why should I go through all the trouble to make something if the outcome might be nothing?” The answer will usually come with a wicked trickster grin: “Because it’s fun, isn’t it?” Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth—not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity? There is always that alternative, after all.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear