"In spite of ever-repeated collisions with the world and with other people, they can never give up their wish to love them both. "
So very very true, i have constant collisions with the world and other people, but i can never give up my wish to love them both! Gosh why is being an INFP like feeling so misunderstood and outcasted, but i guess in order to feel other's pains and defeats we have to go through our own pains and defeats. I guess that's all a part of what it is meant to be an INFP, one who will edify Charities and help the hurting and oppressed, we wouldn't be good at doing this if we didn't know how it is so painful to be so hurt and feel so oppressed ourself. It's like a paradox, for us to bring joy and healing and love into others lives, we have to live a life of pain from being so misunderstood and outcasted and even called things like mental, irrational, illogical, or psychotic, etc, i guess we are very important to the human race for the duty we bring to it... the joy of seeing people healed and helped by us is truly a deep joy though and helps to make up for the pain we suffer for being INFP's.
"Owing to their inability to express themselves clearly, and to bring their ideals to reality, there may arise a feeling of impotence and inferiority. They are apt to seek the fault in themselves, and may suffer much from a sense of guilt on this account. Here, also, feelings have a tendency to extend their influence, with the result that their whole being may be plunged into depths of unhappiness; but at other times a genuine emotional contact with someone will once more fill them with a quiet and enormous delight. Now they will look at the world again with new eyes, and a feeling that is almost religious will embrace both nature and man. "
The key here is finding a genuine emotional contact, that is what we INFP's need so bad. Just one person on our side who appreciates and understands us is enough at least for me, one person is enough, but wow, hard to find just one, very hard... i am thankful for this forum though it is helping me so much to fellowship with all you other INFP's and even to hear from the other types as well, but of course more so for me the INFP's being that i am in INFP.