By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality – taking things as they are, and not as I want them to be – by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accept things they over powered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only be accepting them that one can assume an attitude towards them.

From a patient of Jung’s