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 CAMPBELLBoth the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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