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“The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.” quote by Connie Zweig — Download Open image

“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

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

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

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

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“In order to protect its own control and sovereignty the ego instinctively puts up a great resistance to the confrontation with the shadow; when it catches a glimpse of the shadow the ego most often reacts with an attempt to eliminate it. Our will is mobilized and we decide. "I just won't be that way any more!" Then comes the…

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

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

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

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

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

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Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

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