"In the end one has to admit that there are problems which
one simply cannot solve on one’s own resources. Such an admission has the
advantage of being honest, truthful, and in accord with reality, and this
prepares the ground for a compensatory reaction from the collective
unconscious: you are now more inclined to give heed to a helpful idea or
intuition, or to notice thoughts which had not been allowed to voice themselves
before. Perhaps you will pay attention to the dreams that visit you at such
moments, or will reflect on certain inner and outer occurrences that take place
just at this time. If you have an attitude of this kind, then the helpful
powers slumbering in the deeper strata of man’s nature can come awake and
intervene, for helplessness and weakness are the eternal experience and the
eternal problem of mankind. To this problem there is also an eternal answer,
otherwise it would have been all up with humanity long ago." – C.G. Jung,
Collected Works, Vol 9.1 “Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious”, par. 44
