Rule 5 uses a single example, drawn from my experience as a clinical psychologist, to illustrate the personal and social necessity of attending to the dictates of conscience. Rule 4 argues that the meaning that sustains people through difficult times is to be found not so much in happiness, which is fleeting, but in in the voluntary adoption of mature responsibility for the self and others. Rule 3 warns of the dangers of avoiding the information (vital to the continual rejuvenation of the psyche) signaled by the emergence of negative emotions such as pain, anxiety, and fear. Rule 2 analyzes a centuries-old alchemical image, relying on several stories-ancient and modern-to illuminate the nature and development of the integrated human personality. Rule 1 describes the relationship between stable, predictable social structures and individual psychological health, and makes the case that such structures need to be updated by creative people if they are to retain their vitality. Be grateful in spite of your suffering.Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.Do you not hide unwanted things in the fog.

Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.

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