I came across this on Facebook this morning; it seems to relate to my thoughts in recent posts that it is possible to surrender one’s small personal will to the “whole.”

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one’s best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one’s own will and one’s own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development.

–Carl Jung