28-01-2010, 05:29 PM
Better still... a polite truth trumps a polite falsehood and completely trumps an impolite one.
This applies to those who may not be entirely familiar with the minutiae of the argument but are non-the-less interested onlookers on the subject - and who are also long enough in the tooth to have seen countless bloody feuds take hold because of a few ill chosen words used in the heat of the moment.
Passion for the subject is entirely commendable, but it sadly and often has a way of being nudged aside by the beast of lesser nobility.
This applies to those who may not be entirely familiar with the minutiae of the argument but are non-the-less interested onlookers on the subject - and who are also long enough in the tooth to have seen countless bloody feuds take hold because of a few ill chosen words used in the heat of the moment.
Passion for the subject is entirely commendable, but it sadly and often has a way of being nudged aside by the beast of lesser nobility.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14