“I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.” KnowsPersonsEvilConsciousnessBrokenConsciousWeaknessShadowLimitationGood And EvilGood Person Author:John Bradshaw
“Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.” EnoughIndividualConsciousShadowBraveThickProjection Author:Carl Jung
“To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.” KnowsStillsInspiringGraceConsciousShadowTragedyStrikesDisasterUncertaintyAcknowledge Author:Peter Abrahams
“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.” PeopleWholeAbleOrderUniverseDealsNiceStrangeProtectSkillsConsciousShadowCapacityInfiniteChaosContemplationComplexityEntityGlancesCarolsStrange PlacesRecursionStrange Times Book:Mostly Harmless Source: Mostly Harmless
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” DoeLightKnowledgeDarknessFiguresEnlightenmentConsciousShadowThoughtfulEnlightenedLove LifeSuicidalMemories Dreams ReflectionsConscious MindIndividuationLight And ShadowShadow WorkSithDark Night Of The SoulInner DarknessBecoming EnlightenedShadow Of Love Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies