"Beneath the surface a person is suffering from a deadly boredom that makes everything seem meaningless and empty ... as if the initial encounter with the Self casts a dark shadow ahead of time."

"Non-identification demands considerable moral effort...prevents a descent into that darkness"; but though "the conscious mind is liable to be submerged at any moment in the unconscious... understanding acts like a life-saver. It integrates the unconscious"—reincorporates the shadow into the personality, producing a stronger, wider consciousness than before.

"To know oneself, one must accept one's shadow."

- Carl Jung