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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

Joseph Campbell

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

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