Sunday, August 02, 2015

May Sarton Contemplating Carl Jung

Wow, last night I opened May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude to page 110 where she quotes Carl Jung:
A key to the dangers of sublimation:
One does not become enlightened by imagining the figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Only the living presence of the eternal images can lend the human psyche a dignity that makes it morally possible for a man to stand by his own soul, and be covinced that it is worth his while to persevere with himself. Only then will he realize that the conflict is in him, that the discord and tribulation are his riches, which should not be squandered by attacking others; and that if fate should exact a debt from him in the form of guilt, it is a debt to himself.

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