“When I die I will return to seek / The moments I did not live by the sea.”
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Selected Poems. (transl.) Richard Zenith. Carcanet Press, 1997.
“The Wise Old Man archetype seeks the truths that will set us free. If he has overcome the temptation of dogma, this can result in wisdom and the ability to see the world and others objectively. The Wise Old Man is a seeker of truth and enlightenment and journeys far in search of the next golden nugget of knowledge. The danger for the Wise Old Man is the deep seated fear that his hard-won wisdom is built on the sands of falsehood. His Shadow Side is the judge, manifest as the tendency to be cold, rational, heartless, dogmatic, even pompous, evaluating others in an unfair or insensitive manner.”
Some random crappy online quiz on Jungian archetypes.
Wise Old Man from the Sea 