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.

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.

There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of incredible suffering. This is what we call the transmission of family sin, in which these unconscious patterns get carried on for generations in a legacy of pain. When they are not brought to awareness and worked through, each generation just automatically enacts them.

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

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.

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