Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult.
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the acid test of one’s whole outlook upon on life.
That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ, these are undoubtedly great virtues.
What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ.
But what if should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself, that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved, what then?
Jung, CW11, Psychotherapists or the Clergy, paragraph 520
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, page 235.
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