Carole

“The stirring up of conflict is a Luciferian virtue in the true sense of the word. Conflict engenders fire, the fire of affects and emotions, and like every other fire it has two aspects, that of combustion and that of creating light. On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all superfluities to ashes (omnes superfluitates comburit). But on the other hand, emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.”
― C.G. Jung

“If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“He must give up his identification with original unconscious wholeness and voluntarily accept being a real fragment instead of an unreal whole.”
― Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

“The one who learns to live with his incapacity has learned a great deal.”
― Sonu Shamdasani, The Red Book: Liber Novus