“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.
C.G. Jung, “Autobiography – Dreams, Memories, Reflections”, p. 272
If today this thought finds you going through “the hell of your passions“, then everything is fine. You’re on the path to overcoming them, and you’re saving yourself the projections onto “the house next door”.
