Julia Cameron Quotes

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.

Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.