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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 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
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
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
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Body Feeling Soul Stay Student 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
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
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
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings 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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