Makers Quotes by Connie Zweig

Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you…

— Connie Zweig

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

— Connie Zweig

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

— Connie Zweig

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As…

— Connie Zweig

If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody…

— Connie Zweig

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

— Connie Zweig

“In order to protect its own control and sovereignty the ego instinctively puts up a great resistance to the confrontation with the shadow; when…

— Connie Zweig

Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really…

— Connie Zweig

“The Taoists realized that no single concept or value could be considered absolute or superior. If being useful is beneficial, the being useless is…

— Connie Zweig

There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of…

— Connie Zweig

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

— Connie Zweig

Each of us wrestles with the dark giant in our own way.

— Connie Zweig