I do enjoy Carl Jung's poetic turn of phrase.
Carl Jung once wrote, “The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of a diminution of personality.” Eventually the costs become too high. The person at the end of this task realizes that there is a spiritual hunger that’s been unmet, a desire to selflessly serve some cause, to leave some legacy for others.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Carl Jung... Read it five or six times today. Bookshelves of truth in a few paragraphs. Do your future self a favour
“People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don’t accept what Life presents them with, the questions and tasks that Life sets them.
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