ABSTRACT

I begin with words about sorrow from Jung. In his commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower he says, “All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul” (Wilhelm 1975: 126). His comment comes in response to a letter from a former patient. The woman writes:

By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and hand in hand with that, by accepting reality – taking things as they are, and not as I want them to be – by doing all this, rare knowledge has come to me, and rare powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before.