January Twenty-Second

ABOVE all we need to be taught more affection for the infirmities of life.
... Both artist and lover know that perfection is not lovable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable ... . This is a common theme in the folklore of "Arabian Nights": where you stumble and fall, there you find the gold.

-- JOSEPH CAMPBELL

January Sixteenth

THE HERO must venture forth from the world of commonsense consciousness into a region of supernatural wonder.
There he encounters fabulous forces - demons and angels, dragons and helping spiritis. After a fierce battle, he wins a decisive victory over the powers of darkness. Then he returns from his mysterious adventure with the gift of knowledge or fire, which he bestows on his fellow man.

-- JOSEPH CAMPBELL, conversation with Sam Keen, Psychology Today