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.

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

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.

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.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one.