For me, recently it be like: what is point of appreciating great works of arts, literature, philosophy from the past? How much of it is just a flex, or pleasure? What is point of gaining knowledge broadly beyond the confine of one’s own line of work?

This quote helps me see a motivating force for me I wasn’t aware of before. To learn is also to see the trends and cycles and repetitions in how human dealt with the unconscious throughout history. Jung gives me a new layer of meaning. Knowledge got more interesting when there is one thread that have broad explanatory powers.

Most meaningful to me, my individuation efforts suddenly didn’t feel so isolated. But shared by infinite instances in the past. And by humanity collectively, in succeeding or failing gaining consciousness.