Quotes from David H. Rosen

The Way is to straighten oneself and await the direction of destiny.

Do not force things.... Can you afford to be careless? So then, flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. How else can you carry out your task? It is best to leave everything to work naturally, though this is not easy.21

Knowing unconsciously is best; presuming to know what you don't know is sick."34

Success is as dangerous as failure,

Jung states: Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: "Formation; Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal recreation." 64 And that is the Self, the wholeness of the personality, which if all goes well is harmonious.65

Tao is very often the Way that each individual has to follow if [one person] wishes to accord with the great cosmic principles that govern life instead of putting up a futile resistance to them at the cost of needless stress and frustration.52

1992) Wen-tzu: Understanding the Mysteries. Trans. T. Cleary. Boston: Shambhala.

Chuang Tzu had long ago written words that now expressed Jung's predicament: My dependence is like that of the snake on his skin. How can I tell why I do this, or why I do that?56

Rosen, D. (1996) Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity. New York: Penguin/Arkana.

Woodman, M. (1982) Addition to Perfection. Toronto: Inner City Books.

Thomas Merton once elo-quently stated, "To attain ... spiritual wisdom, one must first be liberated from servile dependence on the 'wisdom of speech' (1. Cor. 1:17).

1996) The Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion and Renewal. New York: Addison-Wesley.

one understands nothing psychological unless one has experienced it oneself.

As Chuang Tzu says: Too much pleasure? Yang has too much influence. Too much suffering? Yin has too much influence.28

Chinese alchemy parallels European alchemy in postulating the change from watery lead (nigredo) to fiery heart (rubedo) and then to pure white (albedo) or gold (also known as the Philosopher's Stone).22 Understandably, in ancient Greece, a "similar archetypal concept of a perfect being is that of Platonic man, round on all sides and uniting within himself the two sexes."23

Guggenbühl-Craig, A. (1977) Marriage: Dead or Alive. Dallas: Spring Publications.

Buber, M. (1990) The Way of Man.

The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know.

Of the energies of the universe, none is greater than harmony. Harmony means the regulation of yin and yang."29

Jung is quick to point out that the only [such death and rebirth] "initiation process" that is still alive and practiced today in the West is the analysis of the unconscious as used by doctors for therapeutic purposes.78

The true men of old were not afraid When they stood alone in their views. They had no mind to fight Tao. They did not try, by their own contriving, To help Tao along. These are the ones we call true men. Minds free, thoughts gone All that came out of them Came quiet, like the four seasons. 24

The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil.

active imagination," which allowed him—and countless others—to express unconscious shadow material as a painted image or as various other creative products (sculpture, dance, poetry, music, etc.), so that it could be effectively dealt with psychologically.

And lastly Jung states (almost prophetically): A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.... Whenever we give up, leave behind. and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.92