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 CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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