MYTH AND THE MODERN WORLD

...Aren't children lovable because they're falling down all the time and have little bodies with the heads too big? ...And these funny little dogs that people have -- they're lovable because they're so imperfect. ...Perfection would be inhuman. The umbilical point, the humanity, the thing that makes you human and not supernatural and immortal-- that's what's lovable. That is why some people have a very hard time loving God, because there's no imperfection there. You can be in awe, but that would not be real love.... Suffering. Suffering is imperfection, is it not? ...The story of human suffering,striving, living ... and youth coming to knowledge ofitself, what it has to go through...

The Power of Myth,

Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers