The inevitability of conflict among the archetypal "powers" can cause us to experience a hopeless, senseless impasse.
But the conflict can also be discovered to be the expression of a symbolic pattern still to be intuited.
It can be lived as if it were a drama, the play of life or of the gods, for the purpose of experiencing an ultimate meaning...
When one can feel that "everything transient is but a symbol".
Then meaning can be found not only in creativity, joy and love but also in impasse, suffering and conflict.
And life can be lived as a work of art.
E.C. Whitmont – The Symbolic Quest
