My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos. - Carl Jung

I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.

Nothing so promotes the growth of consciousness as [the] inner confrontation of opposites.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.