Light v. Dark

This is one of my favorites to date!  How as guides do we choose the most efficient path towards health?  Do we emphasize resolving defenses against life or deepen the experience of life itself?  Focus on pain or joy, failure or success, sin or salvation, suffering or enlightenment, impermanence or the Absolute?  And what if there is a choice that is not either/or, but non-dualistic?  Where then, is the trailhead for the pathless path?