The cure for suffering, which is the collision of consciousness with the unconscious, is not to sink into unconsciousness, but to be raised to consciousness and suffer more. The evil of suffering is corrected by greater suffering, higher suffering. Do not take opium, but put salt and vinegar into the wound of your soul, for when you are inactive and no longer feel pain, you are gone. But you must be. Then don't close your eyes to the agony of the Sphinx, but look into its face, and let it seize you with its mouth, and squeeze you with a hundred thousand poisonous teeth, and swallow you. And when it swallows you, you will know the sweetness of the taste of suffering."
Credit Jung
