🌒 shadow

We are all poets and healers when we use language correctly. One makes a mandorla every time one says something that is true.

The shadow is that which has not entered adequately into consciousness. It is the despised quarter of our being. It often has an energy potential nearly as great as that of our ego. If it accumulates more energy than our ego, it erupts as an overpowering rage or some indiscretion that slips past us; or we have a depression or an accident that seems

Paraphrasing the Joker: heroes like Batman had a bad day, only they won’t admit it, and keep pretending that life makes sense.26 Bruce Wayne faces the abyss of absurdity but refuses it: by creating Batman’s identity he forces the world to make sense.27

Men lay their shadow upon women, whites upon blacks. Catholics upon Protestants, capitalists upon communists, Muslims upon Hindus. Neighborhoods will make one family the scapegoat and these people will bear the shadow for the entire group. Indeed, every group unconsciously designates one of its members as the black sheep and makes him or her carry