~ Carl Jung Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

This insight alone, ultimately, is what Laozi wrote 81 chapters about in his Dao de Jing.

Except that Laozi wouldn’t quite mean ‘know the unconscious’ the way we think about it … he does not want us to know with the ‘reasonable’ consciousness of a thinker — say, a scientist — but the mindful awareness of a master.



Jung would like me to ‘know’ the unconscious. Laozi suggests I embody what is Dao in my unconscious, and let go what is not. Not quite the same thing.