I do enjoy Carl Jung's poetic turn of phrase.
Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been wr... See more
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s” - Carl Jung
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Such a precept confronts him with life’s finiteness as well as the finality of what he makes out of both his life and himself.