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Quote #7
The paradox of creation, the coming of the forms of time out of eternity, is the germinal secret of the father. It can never be quite explained. (135.1)
A big part of wisdom involves humility…or, to put it another way, knowing what you don't know.
Quote #8
The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. (176.1)
Knowledge means growth and growth can hurt sometimes. That's really the point of all those tests and challenges on the Hero's Journey: providing growth that leads to knowledge.
Quote #9
Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold. The first problem of the returning hero is to accept as real, after an experience of the soul-satisfying vision of fulfillment, the passing joys and sorrows, banalities and noisy obscenities of life. (202.2)
Hey, no one said that wisdom would be easy to find. Otherwise, we'd all be wise and those mistakes that keep dogging human life wouldn't be a problem anymore.