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

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

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

Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.

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

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

If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.