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Values, which should not be confused with virtues, embrace the broader principles of what might be considered the good and bad of living and being in the world. Allport (1961) identified six categories of life values: economic, political, scientific, aesthetic, social, and spiritual. The balance of these categories will vary across cultural and historical divides but Jung was in no doubt that ‘supreme values reside in the soul’ (Jung, 1970a, para. 14). In the West, the first three categories seem to dominate our existence and now encroach on the provision of psychological therapies in the guise of managed care systems such as IAPT. Determining the balance of these value for our personal lives and for the profession requires a reflective and reflexive attitude that can be engendered by recourse to philosophy, cultural aphorism, and poetry. Such reflection helps us tolerate and understand our duplex nature - the unconscious v. conscious, doing v. being, chaos v. order. There is a coincidence of opposites in ourselves, in our lives, and in the provision of our vocation that requires care, understanding and re-calibration of our balance of values. The article espouses and concludes with an attitude framework to help in this endeavour and admonishes that the great mystery of values for living involves a long and deep search into our own souls.