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

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

There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.

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

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.