🌒 shadow
by baja · updated 4d ago
🌒 shadow
In both directions, we encounter our shadows, the unclaimed, undesired, and un-befriended aspects of our nature. To become fully developed human beings, we must confront both our demons and our angels.
from The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom by Angeles Arrien
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But he who cannot mock himself will be mocked by others. So accept your self-mockery so that everything divine and heroic falls from you and you become completely human. What is divine and heroic in you is a mockery to the other in you. For the sake of the other in you, set off your admired role which you previously performed for your own self and
... See morefrom The Red Book by C. G. Jung
baja added 4d ago
- The basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death. Human beings are naturally anxious because we are ultimately helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die. “This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feeli... See more
from The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
baja added 6mo ago
When the God enters my life, I return to my poverty for the sake of the God. I accept the burden of poverty and bear all my ugliness and ridiculousness, and also everything reprehensible in me. I thus relieve the God of all the confusion and absurdity that would befall him if I did not accept
from The Red Book by C. G. Jung
baja added 4d ago
- The whole Self — made up of the Ego, the Persona, and the Shadow. Together, they create the unique You on this planet. Jung called this journey of integration- Individuation.
from Your Shadow Is Your Superpower by Andy Travis
baja added 3mo ago
- The nature of working with the shadow can be incredibly destabilizing in one’s life. Opening the gates to the unconscious is much like peering beyond the veil into the great unknown, it opens a portal of sorts, and what comes out can be as frightening as it can be healing. Many times, the fear comes before the cure. These previously unknown parts o... See more
from The Alchemy of Shadow Work by Alyssa Polizzi
baja added 18d ago
- To become aware and then integrate the shadow into one’s personality is a difficult and sometimes a heroic endeavor. But failure to do so can create chaos in one’s life.
from Your Shadow Is Your Superpower by Andy Travis
baja added 3mo ago
‘heroic endeavor’
- According to Carl Jung, The shadow self (or the dark side of the Self) is your animal nature that lives behind your social persona. This includes the usual suspects like our fear, anxieties, envy, lust but also positives like instinct, intuition, compassion, and spirituality. The less you know it and own it, the denser, deeper, and more unpredictab... See more
from Your Shadow Is Your Superpower by Andy Travis
baja added 3mo ago
As the psychologist Carl Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
from Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
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