Journey to Self

D. H. Lawrence (1923): "Sometimes snakes can't slough. They can't burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin and nobody gets to see the new pattern. It takes a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don't care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out. It also needs a real belief in the new skin. Otherwise you are likely never to make the effort. Then you gradually sicken and go rotten and die in the old skin."

Carl J. Jung (1928): "...the self is our life's goal. For it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality."