"Out of perfection nothing can be made...." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.
More by Joseph Campbell
More on Creation
“The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.”
“Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.”
“The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.”
More on Destruction
“What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.”
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.”
“And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.”