Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton

Author:May Sarton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497646339
Publisher: Open Road Media

February 13th

THE HOUSE is full of spring flowers, valentines. There is no month when I can imagine spring flowers being more of a delight. Yesterday the trees were sheathed in ice and it is bitterly cold; so the freshness, the aliveness of daffodils and iris and tulips indoors is quite overwhelming. Even the rich green leaves and the scent in this frozen odorless world seem like marvels.

I have been pondering two passage from Jung. The first is a key to the dangers of sublimation: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” The second is:

Only the living presence of the eternal images can lend the human psyche a dignity that makes it morally possible for a man to stand by his own soul, and be convinced that it is worth his while to persevere with himself. Only then will he realize that the conflict is in him, that the discord and tribulation are his riches, which should not be squandered by attacking others; and that if fate should exact a debt from him in the form of guilt, it is a debt to himself.

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