Equally, only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the hoard, the "treasure hard to attain."
He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself.
This experience gives him faith and trust, the pistis in the ability of the self to sustain him, for everything that menaced him from inside he has made his own.
He has acquired the right to believe that he will be able to overcome
all future threats by the same means.
He has arrived at an inner certainty which makes him capable of self-reliance and attained what the alchemists called the unio mentalis.
~ Carl Jung, CW 14, Para 756
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