Quote by Gabor Maté Download Open image ““No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.”” — Gabor Maté ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The Shadow represents everything we refuse to acknowledge about ourselves that nonetheless impacts the way we behave.” — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
“There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't.” — Atul Randev Copy Share Image
“Everything has a shadow-side. In my opinion, that is what makes life interesting.” — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We should not stray from the darkness within us, that thing we call our Shadow. We should embrace it and learn from it. Only… — Trevor Carter Copy Share Image
“The light overshadows the dark, because without light there would be no shadow.” — Dominic Minguzzi Copy Share Image
“The shadow is the place we put all the suppressed and repressed parts of our lives. + Eventually, in every life, the suppressed and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?” — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The fact is, we in this society are often quite removed from our own emotional reality.” — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Many adults have not attained maturity — have not mastered being independent, self-motivated individuals capable of tending their own emotional needs and of respecting… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“If a mother has eight children, there are eight mothers. This is not simply because of the fact that the mother was different in… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Without attachment, the parent succeeds at most in cowing a child into obedience, at the price of grave damage to the relationship and to… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Attachment is our connection with the world. In the earliest attachment relationships, we gain or lose the ability to stay open, self-nurturing and healthy.… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“So what you've actually got is traumatized children. When children are traumatized that affects how they feel about themselves, which is deeply ashamed because… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Even without world wars, revolutions and emigration, siblings growing up in the same home almost never share the same environment. More accurately, brothers and… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“We think that there are people who are normal over here, and then there’s the pathological ones who have depression, anxiety, addiction or schizophrenia… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“One cannot get much more vulnerable than to expose oneself psychologically. To share oneself with another and then be misunderstood or rejected is, for… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
