The Animal in Man

When we say "the animal in man," this always strikes us

as something horrible. But this animal in man

is not horrible, no more that animals are horrible,

for they fulfill God's will most faithfully; they live

to fulfill their Creator's purpose. We do not do this.

We meddle with the work of the Creator, for we always

want to be something different from what we are.

Our ambition is not to be the whole of ourselves, for that

would be unpleasant. But the animals are themselves and

they fulfill the will of God that is within them in a true

and faithful manner.

Carl Jung