The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl JungWhat did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
Carl JungThe unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.
Carl JungAn old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.
Carl JungBut what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himselfโ that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be lovedโ what then?
Carl Jung