Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path
Jung explained that our shadow constitutes the parts of ourselves we reject or avoid looking at because these aspects don’t fit with the way we’d like to see ourselves. He explained that we each have in us the forces for the greatest good and also the greatest evil. We have the potential to commit the same horrible atrocities that we see in the wor
... See moreJude Star • The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness: Insights from Depth Psychology
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When you embrace the messages of each aspect of your shadow, you begin to take back the power you've given to others and form a bond of trust with your authentic self. The voices of your unembraced qualities, when allowed into your consciousness, will bring you back into balance and harmony with your natural rhythms.
Debbie Ford • Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (A. Jaffé, Ed.). If we think that the ‘other’ is the only one who ‘needs’ to do this work, we are negating the very anatomy of psyche that belongs to every person on this planet. When we negate the presence of our shadow, we often project it onto the other and move into binaries thereby feeding the collective shadow.
instagram.comThe shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness.
C. G. Jung • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Book 10)
Karl Jung said this about ‘the Shadow’ in one of his books: ‘It is as evil as we are positive … the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive. … The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and beco
... See moreHaruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
There’s a way in which the Shadow is different from all the other archetypes: the others affect how you see the world; the Shadow determines how you see yourself.
Phil Stutz • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion
Devise a plan for embracing and integrating your shadow self, acknowledging and working with aspects of your personality that are often hidden or suppressed, to achieve a more holistic self-understanding."