Path

The path is the literal image of a life in motion. Taoist tradition makes the path (Dao) the whole of the teaching — the way that cannot be named. Jungian analysis treats the dream-path as the individuation journey: the road that only you can walk, though many have walked roads very like it. The condition of the path matters. A broad, paved road often represents the conventional route — safe, well-walked, perhaps not yours. A faint track through woods, the individual path that is asking to be taken. A path that vanishes, the place where you must make your own way. Notice who else is on the path with you.