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July 11, 2005 
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People are Creators - The Artist's Way
I have just started reading The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. I found it interesting how affirming it is of the first of the Agile Axioms. The following are all quotations taken from the first couple of chapters of the book:
Through my own experience - and that of countless others that I have shared - I have come to believe that creativity is our true nature...
What you are doing is creating pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces can operate. Once you agree to clearing these pathways, your creativity emerges. In a sense, your creativity is like your blood. Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing that you must invent.
And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Why should we all use our crative power . . . ? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. (Brenda Ueland)
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Posted by Mishkin Berteig at July 11, 2005 11:17 PM
