When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not alway… - Carl Jung

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites — day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

Indeed, I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope, my mind's eye a mirror that reflects a small corner of the world, and my ideas — a subjective confession.

"‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.