trying to be perfect is costly.

We all contain the imprint of the entire universe within ourselves.

Knowing often prevents us from experiencing through our hearts. Shadow work is not intellectual; it’s a journey from the head to the heart.

We project it onto the world, onto our families and friends, and onto strangers.

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

It is not enough to say, “I know I am controlling.” We must see what controlling has to teach us, what gift it brings, and then we must be able to view it with awe and compassion.

To be divine is to be whole and to be whole is to be everything: the positive and the negative, the

To be divine is to be whole and to be whole is to be everything: the positive and the negative, the good and the bad, the holy man and the devil.

That dark, earthy, essential place within us is our shadow.