“One is seeking something that is impossible to find or about which nothing is known. In such moments all well-meant, sensible advice is completely useless - advice that urges one to be responsible, to take a holiday, not to work so hard (or to work harder), to have more (or less) human contact or to take up a hobby. None of that helps, or at best only rarely. There is only one thing that seems to work; and that it is to turn directly toward the approaching darkness without prejudice and totally naively, and to try to find out what its secret aim is and what it wants from you.”
— From ‘The first approach of the unconscious’ in Man and his Symbols. Edited by Carl Jung.
