Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path
In every multiple personality case, you can always clearly identify the shadow. It’s not always evil—it’s just different than the ego. Jung said the truth of the matter is that the shadow is ninety percent pure gold. Whatever has been repressed holds a tremendous amount of energy, with a great positive potential. So the shadow, no matter how troubl
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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
The unconscious is a marvelous universe of unseen energies, forces, forms of intelligence—even distinct personalities—that live within us.
Robert A. Johnson • Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
In the view of analytical psychology, the repression of both negative and positive instincts, urges, and feelings into the unconscious causes them to inhabit a shadow realm.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
What happens to the left-hand side of the balance if one does not keep it conscious and give it honorable expression? Unless we do conscious work on it, the shadow is almost always projected; that is, it is neatly laid on someone or something else so we do not have to take responsibility for it.