If you are looking for a "wise person," someone to look to for guidance, you can't go wrong with
C.G. Jung. I do believe he was one of the greatest of minds when it comes to Human Beings and Human Psychology.
"Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual's conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion."
Looking for advice on
"How to Live?" Be sure to check out this
Brain Pickings post. A letter from C.G. Jung in response to a questioner:
"But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other. If you
always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious. Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live. And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but
quietly do the next and most necessary thing. So long as you think you don’t yet know what this is, you still have too much money to spend in useless speculation. But if you do with conviction
the next and most necessary thing, you are always
doing something meaningful and intended by fate." - C.G. Jung
Let me just say, as a life-long, quester after meaning, heart, and purpose, the above is the most practical, powerful, useful, on-target advice I have ever read on how to live and the best way forward. Really. Take it to the bank. And then "quietly do the next and most necessary thing." Exactly. That's the fucking trick right there. I'd like to tattoo that on my forearm, and shout it to the rooftops!
