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 become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.
Carl JungThe more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
Carl JungThere can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl Jung