Walking in This World Quotes

“FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR”
― Julia Cameron, Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity

“Here’s what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny-looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn’t let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn’t make a puffer fish and get discouraged. No, the maker made things—and still does. European film directors often enjoy creative careers, during which their films mature from the manifestos of angry young men to the rueful wisdom of great works by creative masters. Is an afternoon siesta the secret? Is their vita just a little more dolce? We’ve taken espresso to our American hearts, but we haven’t quite taken to the “break” in our coffee breaks. Worried about playing the fool, we forget how to simply play. We try to make our creativity linear and goal oriented. We want our “work” to lead somewhere. We forget that diversions do more than merely divert us.”
― Julia Cameron, Walking in This World

“We may have spent years and considerable energy getting to the top of our profession, only to be struck by a bout of inner restlessness and the unshakable, unpalatable, and unwelcome conviction that our life no longer fits us and we must try to find a new one. Tempted to “ditch everything,” we may fantasize running off to the South of France or the north of Africa.”
― Julia Cameron, Walking in This World

“Anger is a call to action. It is challenging and important to let our light shine. It is important to name ourselves rather than wait for someone else to do it, or pretend that we can continue to bear it when we can’t. When we complain that others do not take ourselves and our values seriously, we are actually saying that we don’t. If our aesthetics matter so much to us, we must act on them in a concrete and specific form.”
― Julia Cameron, Walking in This World

“Augustine, himself a great walker, remarked, “Solvitur ambulando”—“it is solved by walking.”
― Julia Cameron, Walking in This World

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. FRIEDRICH ENGELS”
― Julia Cameron, Walking in This World