Sit in a room and read — and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, … - Joseph Campbell

Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether.

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

The perfect human being is uninteresting — the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections that are loveable