God is No Laughing Matter Quotes

“You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path

“We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path

“Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path

“Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path

“It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master’s message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path

“One of the reasons many of us avoid meditation is that we think of it as work—and work we may not do perfectly. What if we didn’t have to do it perfectly? What if we didn’t have to “do” it at all? What if we could rest—and let God do the rest?”
― Julia Cameron, God Is No Laughing Matter

“And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path

“I began to pray for help with what I needed and wanted as well as for the knowledge of God’s will for me and the power to carry it out. Immediately, I felt a heightened sense of spiritual companionship.”
― Julia Cameron, God Is No Laughing Matter