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Adoptez l'humilité et l'équilibre ; laissez la modestie guider vos actions pour un progrès harmonieux.
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La véritable modestie n'est pas autoconsciente. Elle permet d'entreprendre de grandes tâches avec confiance et succès.
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Évitez d'exhiber vos ressources. Utilisez-les plutôt de manière judicieuse et affirmée pour atteindre vos objectifs.
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Lorsque la modestie est évidente, il est approprié de prendre des mesures décisives pour corriger les problèmes internes et améliorer la communauté.
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Concentrez-vous sur le renforcement de l'harmonie dans votre communauté ou votre famille. Cultivez la stabilité et le soutien mutuel en favorisant une communication ouverte et des valeurs partagées.
Other titles: Modesty, The Symbol of Humility, Moderation, Humbling, Respectful/Humble, Yielding/Retiring. 1. Obtaining this hexagram implies that modesty is needed in our attitude, meaning, to allow ourself to be led without resistance. – C.K. Anthony. 2. A Humble or modest person is thought of as having an “empty or unoccupied” mind, meaning a mind without prejudice. – Chung Wu. 3. Only superior people who practice Tao know where to stop, disregard what they have and appear to have nothing. – T. Cleary.
Judgment
Legge:Temperance indicates successful progress. Temperancebrings a good issue to the superior man's undertakings.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Modesty creates success. The superior man carries things through.
Blofeld:Modesty brings success. The Superior Man is able to carry affairs through to completion.
Liu: Modesty: success. The superior man can continue to work to the end.
Ritsema/Karcher: Humbling, Growing. A chun tzu possesses completing. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of the necessity to cut through pride and complication. It emphasizes that keeping your words unpretentious is the adequate way to handle it...]
Shaughnessy: Modesty: Receipt; the gentleman has an end.
Cleary (1):Humility is developmental. The superior person has a conclusion.
Cleary (2):Humility gets through. A leader has a conclusion.
Wu:Humility is pervasive. The jun zi will have grace in death.
The Image
Legge: A mountain hidden within the earth -- the image of Temperance. The superior man, in accordance with this, diminishes his excesses to augment his insufficiencies, thus creating a just balance.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Within the earth, a mountain: the image of Modesty. Thus the superior man reduces that which is too much, and augments that which is too little. He weighs things and makes them equal.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes a mountain in the centre of the earth. The Superior Man takes from where there is too much in order to augment what is too little. He weighs things and apportions them fairly. [The component trigrams symbolize a mountain surrounded by flat earth, thus suggesting too much in one place and too little in others.]
Liu: The mountain within the earth symbolizes modesty. The superior man reduces the excess and increases the lacking; he weighs and then equalizes all things.
Ritsema/Karcher: Earth center possessing mountain. Humbling. A chun tzu uses reducing the numerous to augment the few. A chun tzu uses evaluating beings to even spreading-out.
Cleary (1): There are mountains in the earth; modesty. Thus does the superior person decrease the abundant and add to the scarce, assessing things and dealing impartially.
Cleary (2): … Leaders assess people and give impartially, by taking from the abundant and adding to the scarce.
Wu: There is a mountain inside earth; this is Humility. Thus the jun zi takes excess from the more to enrich the less and measures goods to ensure fair distribution. [To prepare oneself to accept what is fair among all his fellow men is the essence of humility.]
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: It is the way of heaven to dispense its blessings downwards, and the way of earth to radiate its influence upwards. Both heaven and earth diminish the full to augment the lowly. Spiritual beings inflict calamity on the proud and bless the meek, and men resent ostentation and love temperance. Temperanceenlightens an honorable office, and neither will men ignore it in lowly positions. Thus does the superior man attain his ends. [Emphasis editor's -- Ritsema/Karcher translate "spiritual beings" [Kuei Shen] as: "The whole range of imaginal beings both inside and outside the individual; spiritual powers, gods, demons, ghosts, powers, fetishes.”]
Legge: An essay on temperance rightly follows that on abundant possessions. The third line, dynamic among five magnetic lines, in the topmost place of the trigram of Keeping Still, is the ruler of the hexagram. He is the representative of Temperance -- strong, but self-effacing. The idea is that temperance is the way to permanent success.
The Confucian commentary deals generally with the subject of temperance, showing how it is valued by heaven and earth, by spirits and by men. The descent of the heavenly influences, and the low position of the earth are both symbolic of temperance. The heavenly influences are seen in the daily fluctuations of the sun and moon, and the fertility of the earth correspondingly waxes and wanes with the seasons.
The Daily Lecture says:"The five yin lines above and below symbolize the earth; the one yang line in the center is the mountain in the midst of the earth. The many yin lines represent men's desires; the one yang line represents the heavenly principle. The superior man, looking at this symbolism, diminishes the multitude of human desires within him, and increases the single shoot of the heavenly principle; so does he become grandly just, and can deal with all things evenly according to the nature of each. In whatever circumstances or place he is, he will do what is right.”
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment:Temperance means maintaining a dynamic/magnetic balance of forces to attain success.
The Superior Man maintains equilibrium in all that he does.
The most common translation of the title for this hexagram is Modesty, but I have chosen Temperance as a title more expressive of the ideas in the Image and Confucian commentary. The words “modesty” and “humility” often carry a connotation of weakness in western usage, and “temperance,” meaning to temper or regulate, is more expressive of the dynamic strength of will required to restrain and modulate the drive to dominate every situation.
The Image shows a mountain hidden beneath the earth--the quiet, invincible power of sheer will is hidden from view, yet it influences everything. Who observing such a level surface would know that the bulk of Mt. Everest was buried beneath it? Temperance means that one's power is hidden, that the fluctuations of heaven and earth are kept in such dynamic/magnetic balance as to be invisible to ordinary vision. The temperate person is strong enough to bear the weight of the world when that is necessary for the Work.
Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Roman Emperor, was arguably the most powerful man of his time, yet his temperance and modesty showed him to fulfill the ideal of the superior man. Only the truly strong can be truly modest.
And let this truth be present to thee in the excitement of anger, that to be moved by passion is not manly, but that mildness and gentleness, as they are more agreeable to human nature, so also are they more manly; and he who possesses these qualities possesses strength, nerves and courage, and not the man who is subject to fits of passion and discontent. For in the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. Marcus Aurelius
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Legge: The first line, magnetic, shows us the superior man who adds temperance to his temperance. Even the great stream may be crossed with this, and there will be good fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes: A superior man modest about his modesty may cross the great water. Good fortune.
Blofeld: The Superior Man, ever modest and retiring, fords the great river -- good fortune! [Any journey undertaken at this time will bring good fortune.]
Liu: The superior man is modest in his modesty. It is favorable to cross the great water. Good fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Humbling, Humbling: chun tzu. Availing-of wading the Great River. Significant.
Shaughnessy: So modest is the gentleman; herewith ford the great river; auspicious.
Cleary (1): Humble about humility, the superior person thereby crosses great rivers. This is auspicious.
Cleary (2): Extreme humility. It is fortunate if leaders use this to cross great rivers.
Wu: Being humble about his humility, the jun zi can make use of this virtue to cross the big river. It will be auspicious.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The superior man who adds temperance to his temperance is one who nourishes his virtue in lowliness. Wilhelm/Baynes: The superior man is lowly in order to guard himself well. Blofeld: He shows humility in disciplining himself. Ritsema/Karcher: Lowliness uses originating-from herding indeed. Cleary (2): In extreme humility, leaders manage themselves with lowliness. Wu: The jun zi uses humility for self-discipline.
Legge: A magnetic line at the lowest place in the figure is the fitting symbol of the superior man adding temperance to his temperance. The phrase "nourishes his virtue” in the Confucian commentary is literally: "pastures himself.” He is all temperance -- that is what makes him who he is.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: At the outset, the man retains his humility and does not press any claims. As a result he is free from challenges and does not encounter resistance. Difficult enterprises can be undertaken successfully.
Wing: If you can carry out your proposed endeavor quietly, competently, and thoroughly, without obvious announcements of your intentions, you can achieve even significant aims. With a modest and disciplined attitude, you do not create resistance or invite challenge.
Editor: Wilhelm translates the Confucian commentary in terms of lowliness as a technique of self-protection. Blofeld renders it as showing humility in one's self-discipline. Ritsema/Karcher render the verb MU, Herd, as: “tend cattle; watch over, superintend; ruler, teacher;” which recalls Legge's rendering of: "pastures himself.” The idea is to use the discipline of will to keep oneself under control. The line is conceptually a kind of "shadow” to line one of the following hexagram of Enthusiasm, which see. Sometimes it can have the meaning of "reserve” or "reservations,” as in "taking something with a grain of salt.”
The signs of one who is making progress are these: he censures no man, he praises no man, he blames no man, he accuses no man, he says nothing about himself as if he were somebody or knew something: when he is impeded at all or hindered, he blames himself ... he removes all desire from himself, and transfers aversion only to those things within his power which are contrary to nature: he employs a moderate movement towards every thing: whether he is considered foolish or ignorant, he cares not: and in a word he watches himself as if he were an enemy and lying in ambush. Epictetus
A. If you can maintain perspective, an advance is warranted.
B. A double portion of temperance: preserve your reserve, or your reservations about the matter at hand.
C. The ego undertakes responsibility for the Work with the full awareness that it is only the instrument of a higher intelligence within the psyche. This requires a servant's sense of reserve.
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Legge: The fifth line, magnetic, shows one who, without being rich, is able to employ her neighbors. She may advantageously use the force of arms. All her movements will be advantageous.
Wilhelm/Baynes: No boasting of wealth before one's neighbor. It is favorable to attack with force. Nothing that would not further.
Blofeld: In treating his neighbors, he is modest about his wealth. If he now attacks the rebels, everything will contribute to his success.
Liu: Do not show off your riches to your neighbor. It is beneficial to attack with force. It is favorable for everything.
Ritsema/Karcher: Not affluence: using one's neighbor. Harvesting: availing-of encroaching subjugating. Without not Harvesting.
Shaughnessy: Not wealthy together with his neighbors; beneficial herewith to invade and attack; there is nothing not beneficial.
Cleary (1): Not enriching oneself, one shares with the neighbors. It is beneficial to make an invasion, which will profit all.
Cleary (2): Not rich, employing the neighbors, it is beneficial in invasion and attack; all will profit.
Wu: He is capable of influencing his neighbors, despite his lack of wealth. It will be advantageous to take military actions. [Military actions are advantageous only if used to quell an insurrection, but certainly not to launch an aggression.]
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: She may use the force of arms to correct those who do not submit. Wilhelm/Baynes: "It is favorable to attack with force” in order to chastise the disobedient. Blofeld: Such an attack is warranted if the purpose is to chastise those who do not submit to virtuous laws. [This is not an invitation to use force in any circumstances, but only if its use is directed at what is truly perverse or evil.] Ritsema/Karcher: Chastising, not submitting indeed. Cleary (2): In the sense of overcoming the unruly. Wu: Because they are taken against the insurrection.
Legge: Men honor temperance in itself, whether or not it has the power to command obedience and respect. Hence her neighbors follow the ruler in the fifth line, though she may not be very rich or powerful. Her temperance need not prevent her from asserting her rights, even by the force of arms. Any refusal to submit makes an appeal to force necessary. Even the best and most temperate ruler bears the sword, and must not bear it in vain.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man acts energetically with the use of arms, when necessary, in correcting those who do not submit. Even in severity, however, he retains a considerate demeanor, which attracts devoted followers.
Wing: Despite the mild balance that is reached in Moderation, it may be necessary to take forceful action to accomplish your aims. This should not be done with a boastful display of power but with firm, decisive, and objective action. There will be improvement in whatever you undertake.
Editor: Legge's translation differs from the others, stating that one obtains allies from a position of poverty or relative weakness. Wilhelm, Blofeld and Liu all warn about not touting one's wealth (advantage, strength) to one's neighbors -- using them as allies is not specifically mentioned. On the other hand, Ritsema/
Karcher say: "Not affluence: using one's neighbor...” Implicit is the idea that you are in a strong position and needn't belabor the point. The "force of arms” is the use of power, and here we have one able to exercise power through a possible alliance with others like herself (neighbors are peers). Psychologically, it suggests an ego able to discipline and unite most of its inner forces in the furtherance of the Work: one summons up an alliance of power to tame recalcitrant elements within the psyche. If this is the only changing line, the hexagram becomes #39, Obstruction (Impasse) the corresponding line of which portrays the arrival of “friends” (allies), thus reinforcing the concept of obtaining some kind of assistance in the matter at hand.
Only a unified personality can experience life, not that personality which is split up into partial aspects, that bundle of odds and ends which also calls itself "man." Jung --Psychology and Alchemy
A. Do what needs to be done without making a big deal out of it.
B. Image of a proper alliance of forces able to correct the situation without exceeding the mean. A temperate attitude is not inconsistent with the maintenance of strict discipline.
C. “The force of arms” = self-discipline. Pull yourself together to harmonize recalcitrant forces within the psyche.
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Legge: The sixth line, magnetic, shows us temperance that has made itself recognized. The subject of it will with advantage put her army in motion, but she will only punish her own towns and state.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Modesty that comes to expression. It is favorable to set armies marching to chastise one's own city and one's country.
Blofeld: Modestly crows the cock. Now is the time to set armies marching to subdue the cities and the countries of the empire.
Liu: Modesty is expressed. It is favorable to use the army to chastise the city and country.
Ritsema/Karcher: Calling Humbling. Harvesting: availing-of moving legions. Chastising the capital city.
Shaughnessy: Calling modesty; beneficial herewith to move troops to campaign against city and state.
Cleary (1): Trumpeting humility, it is profitable to use the army to conquer one’s land.
Cleary (2): Expressing humility, one profits from military operations attacking the country.
Wu: The subject rolls about humility. It will be advantageous to use the armies to chasten the seditious state.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: All her aims have not yet been attained. She may employ the force of arms only to correct her own towns and state. Wilhelm/ Baynes: The purpose is not yet attained. Blofeld: Because the ruler's will has yet to be carried out, it is proper to do so. [This omen can be taken to indicate that we can afford to go forward boldly with our plans, but only if their fruition will tally with the general good. "The ruler's will” in this case is roughly synonymous with the public good.] Ritsema/Karcher: Purpose not-yet acquired indeed. Permitting availing-of moving legions. Chastising the capital city indeed. Cleary (2): The aspiration has not been attained. Wu: His aspirations have not been fulfilled … The purpose is to chasten the seditious state.
Legge: The subject of the magnetic sixth line is outside a game that has been played out. She will use force, but only within her own sphere and to assert what is right. She will not be aggressive. Chu Hsi bases all that is said under line six on its being a magnetic line, so that the temperate ruler is unable even at the close of the action to accomplish all her objects, and must limit her field even in appealing to arms.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: Even though the man's probity is recognized, his aims are not yet achieved. True modesty begins by disciplining one's own ego and the character of one's immediate circle, without being aggressive beyond.
Wing: Your inner development is not yet complete. The time calls for self-discipline. When difficulties arise, do not place the blame upon others. Once you begin to take responsibility for your own destiny you can bring order to your environment.
Editor: The ruler uses force to attain order in both this and the previous line, but here her influence is confined to immediate objectives. Temperance in this instance is expressed in her awareness of a lack of wholeness in the matter at hand, and of her own limitations in being able to effect completion. Psychologically, to "punish your own towns and state:” is to confine your action to the proper discipline of inner responses: emotions, drives, temptations, etc.
Better an equable man than a hero, a man master of himself than one who takes a city. Proverbs 16: 32
A. Recognize the limitations inherent in the situation and confine your action to objectives within your own sphere of control.
B. A modest, although incomplete, achievement. Confine your activity to controlling personal responses.
C. Don't get carried away with a modest achievement.
Autres titres : Vie de famille, Clan, Maison, Lien, Habitation des gens, La Psyché, "Peut indiquer une situation où la famille peut et doit aider." -- D.F. Hook
Jugement
Legge : Pour la régulation de La Famille, ce qui est le plus avantageux est que la femme soit ferme et correcte.
Wilhelm/Baynes : La Famille. La persévérance de la femme favorise.
Blofeld :La Famille. La persistance des femmes apporte une récompense.
Liu :La Famille. La persévérance d'une femme est bénéfique.
Ritsema/Karcher : Habitation des gens. Récolter : procès de femme. [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de vie et de travail avec d'autres dans un espace commun. Il souligne que prendre soin de votre relation avec ceux qui partagent cet espace et de l'espace lui-même est la manière adéquate de le gérer. Pour être en accord avec le temps, on vous dit : habitez avec les gens !]
Shaughnessy : Membres de la famille : Bénéfique pour la jeune fille de déterminer.
Cleary (1) : Pour les gens à la maison, il est bénéfique que la femme soit chaste. [Dans le corps humain, la vitalité, l'esprit, l'âme, la psyché et l'intention appartiennent tous au yin et prennent tous des ordres de la mentalité humaine … Lorsque vous raffinez l'esprit humain, l'esprit du tao se manifeste spontanément.]
Wu :La Famille indique qu'il est avantageux pour une femme d'être persévérante. [C'est un hexagramme avec son accent sur les femmes. Les deux trigrammes constituants sont féminins … Ainsi, ceux qui s'efforcent d'être fermes et corrects auront des avantages.]
L'Image
Legge : Le vent s'élevant du feu -- l'image de La Famille. L'homme supérieur dit la vérité et est cohérent dans son comportement.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Le vent sort du feu : L'image de La Famille. Ainsi l'homme supérieur a de la substance dans ses paroles et de la durée dans son mode de vie.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le vent s'élevant du feu. Le discours de l'Homme Supérieur est plein de substance et il se comporte avec constance.
Liu : Le vent sortant du feu symbolise La Famille. Le discours de l'homme supérieur doit avoir de la substance, et sa conduite être durable.
Ritsema/Karcher : Vent provenant du feu émergeant. Habitation des gens. Un chun tzu utilise des mots pour posséder des êtres et aussi le mouvement pour posséder la persévérance.
Cleary (1) : Le vent émerge du feu, membres d'une famille. Ainsi y a-t-il de la factualité dans le discours des personnes supérieures, de la cohérence dans leurs actes.
Cleary (2) : … Les personnes développées sont factuelles dans le discours, cohérentes dans l'action.
Wu : Le vent sort du feu ; c'est La Famille. Ainsi le jun zi parle avec des faits et agit avec persévérance.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge : Dans La Famille la femme est à sa place correcte dans le trigramme inférieur, et le mari à sa place correcte dans le supérieur. Que les époux occupent leurs positions correctes montre la relation correcte entre le ciel et la terre. Les parents dirigent la famille : que le père soit vraiment père, et le fils fils ; que le frère aîné soit vraiment frère aîné, et le frère cadet cadet ; que le mari soit vraiment mari, et la femme femme -- alors la famille sera dans son état correct. Amenez la famille à cet état, et tout sous le ciel sera établi.
Legge : Le caractère chinois écrit pour Famille signifie simplement "un ménage", ou "les membres d'une famille". La leçon de l'hexagramme est la régulation de la famille, effectuée par la coopération du mari et de la femme dans leurs sphères respectives, et n'ayant besoin que de devenir universelle pour assurer le bon ordre du royaume. La place importante accordée à la femme est vue dans la courte phrase du Jugement -- qu'elle soit ferme et correcte, et fasse bien sa part est essentiel pour la régulation correcte de la famille.
La femme est représentée par la ligne deux et le mari est son corrélat approprié dans la ligne cinq. La relation entre le ciel et la terre est analogue à la relation entre mari et femme.
La deuxième phrase du commentaire confucéen, rendue plus fidèlement, serait : "Que dans la famille il y ait un dirigeant autoritaire est une manière de nommer père et mère." Cela signifie que l'affirmation de l'autorité dans une famille devrait être un équilibre correct de force et de douceur.
Anthony : La Famille symbolise les relations correctes entre les gens – l'unité familiale, la famille spirituelle (le Sage et l'étudiant), et les groupes humains en général. Lorsque ces relations les plus fondamentales sont correctes, le monde est rendu correct par la force de la vérité intérieure, par la culture de la composante féminine de notre nature, et par la persévérance dans une position pratiquement servile (du point de vue de notre ego) afin que notre travail puisse aboutir. Tout cela signifie renoncer à la lutte et à l'affirmation de soi, et se permettre d'être guidé, tout en persévérant dans la douceur et la dévotion à notre chemin.
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : Pour la régulation correcte de la psyché, ce qui est le plus important est que l'ego doit être ferme et correct.
L'Homme Supérieur vit son allégeance aux idéaux du Travail.
En appliquant l'Axiome Hermétique : "comme en haut, ainsi en bas", les relations au sein d'une famille sont analogues aux relations au sein d'une cité-état, ou d'un royaume, et vice-versa :
La société des siècles avant l'époque de Confucius avait été organisée sur la base de la famille. Aux premiers jours de la dynastie Chou, des fiefs avaient été attribués aux seigneurs féodaux dans un système de colonisation planifiée. Ces seigneurs féodaux, liés les uns aux autres et à la maison royale par des liens de mariage, emmenaient leurs familles, serviteurs, paysans, artisans et soldats pour former des colonies autosuffisantes basées sur une économie agricole et gouvernées depuis des villes fortifiées bien protégées. Ces grands groupements familiaux de la noblesse n'étaient préservés que tant que les relations des parents aux enfants, des frères aux frères, et des maîtres aux serviteurs étaient efficacement contrôlées. D.H. Smith -- Confucius
Si la cité idéale est comme une famille, alors l'analogie vaut aussi pour un individu -- ici la comparaison passe directement de la cité à la psyché :
Avons-nous un plus grand mal pour une ville que ce qui la divise et la rend multiple au lieu d'une ? Ou un plus grand bien que ce qui la lie ensemble et la rend une ? ... Alors cette ville est-elle mieux gouvernée qui est la plus semblable à un seul être humain ? Platon -- La République
Interprété psychologiquement, l'hexagramme de La Famille symbolise la psyché, et le commentaire confucéen nous dit que lorsque ses composants internes assument tous leurs rôles et fonctions appropriés, alors le Travail pourra aboutir. ("Tout sous le ciel sera établi.") La même idée a été exprimée dans la pensée gnostique :
Jésus leur dit : "Quand vous ferez des yeux à la place d'un œil, et une main à la place d'une main, et un pied à la place d'un pied, et une image à la place d'une image, alors vous entrerez dans le Royaume. L'Évangile Gnostique Selon Thomas
Le mari est l'analogue du ciel ou du Soi, et la femme est l'analogue de la terre ou de l'ego. Lorsque l'ego assume son rôle correct en tant que serviteur magnétique du Travail, alors des transformations internes peuvent avoir lieu. J'ai paraphrasé le Jugement en termes de nécessité pour l'ego de suivre les dictats du Travail, mais on pourrait alternativement le formuler en termes de contrôle des réponses émotionnelles. Pour que la femme soit "ferme et correcte", il faut s'assurer que les émotions, les pulsions et les appétits ne soient pas autorisés à prendre des décisions -- ils sont des serviteurs, non des maîtres. C'est l'essence du Travail, et sans doute l'idée la plus réitérée dans leI Ching.
Le patient devrait être encouragé à utiliser son esprit, par l'observation et la discrimination, pour amener clairement à sa conscience l'aspect irrationnel de ses pulsions et émotions, et aussi les inconvénients et la nocivité possibles pour lui-même et pour les autres de leur manifestation incontrôlée … Agir sur le coup d'une impulsion, d'une pulsion ou d'une émotion intense peut très souvent produire des effets indésirables que l'on regrette ensuite … Par conséquent, il devrait apprendre – par des expériences et des efforts répétés – à "insérer" entre l'impulsion et l'action une étape de réflexion, de considération mentale d'une situation, et d'analyse critique de son impulsion, essayant de réaliser son origine, sa source. R. Assagioli – Psychosynthèse
Le trente-septième hexagramme nous enseigne que la manière de gérer les émotions n'est pas différente de la gestion appropriée d'uneFamille. Aucun parent sage ne peut enseigner à un enfant l'autodiscipline en adoptant le point de vue de l'enfant : la permissivité, que ce soit avec nos enfants ou nos propres pulsions et passions primitives, est une formule sûre pour la désintégration. Le Travail exige que l'ego tienne bon sur cette question -- en effet, c'est la seule fonction légitime de l'ego.
Nous sommes dominés par tout ce avec quoi notre [ego] s'identifie. Nous pouvons dominer et contrôler tout ce dont nous nous désidentifions. R. Assagioli -- Psychosynthèse