Carl G. Jung: The Darkness of Your Second Birth

Throughout my illness something has carried me.

My feet were not standing on air

and I had the proof that I have reached a safe ground.

Whatever you do, if you do it sincerely,

will eventually become the bridge to your wholeness,

a good ship that carries you

through the darkness of your second birth,

which seems to be death to the outside.

I will not last too long any more.

I am marked.

But life has fortunately become provisional.

It has become a transitory prejudice,

a working hypothesis for the time being,

but not existence itself.

Be patient and regard it as another difficult task,

this time the last one.

I greet you, CARL G. JUNG

C.G. Jung

Letter to Kristine Mann

From Letters, Vol. 1, pp. 357–59