In his many essays on personality, Jung writes that the call of the soul is a vocation, a true call (Latin called) - like the original call to holy service.
Obedience to this call is equivalent to religious obedience to our elders.
And this is both the way and the paradox. We all know immoderately demanding people, whose narcissistic arrogance seems boundless, who ignore the fact that the grave makes all equal. We also know people whose inner insecurity has led to a compensatory inflation of their own importance. They see themselves as arbiters of the destinies of the world.
Such people lie to the world because they are forced to lie to themselves. As the great American philosopher Pearl Bailey said: "They can think of themselves all they want, what's the point? ".
That kind of compensatory self-exaggeration is not what I have in mind. Finding individuality is not self-conceit; It is a response to the call to look within yourself, to honor your interests, talents and calling, regardless of whether they are recognized by others or not. James Hollis Carl Gustav Jung.