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Shadow Quotes by Carl Jung
- To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
- The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.
- The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the…
- Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness.…
- We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous…
- Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it…
- The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To…
- Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.
- Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a…
- Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side…
- How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole
- Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the…
More Shadow Quotes
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot
- What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- I am about as detailed as a shadow. — Lynda Barry
- To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag… — Jean Baudrillard
- I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. — Martha Beck
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry
- A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant
- Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. — Ambrose Bierce
- Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake