Quotable Quotes -- On Reaching the Actual Breaking Point, Where Change Happens

"People come to the consulting room and lay out a collision of values with great embarrassment and agony. They want resolution but would have something even greater if they could ask for the consciousness to bear the paradox. A friend went for her hour with Dr. Meyer in Zurich who was famous for commenting with the single word 'ja' to anything he was told. In good English style my friend bravely laid out the complexity of her life. She burst into tears and cried out that she could stand it no longer. 'Ja, gut,' replied Dr. Meyer. "Now something will happen." This is stark medicine but it is correct for one who has the strength to bear it." -- Robert A. Johnson, Jungian analyst and author of "Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche."