1) Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.
— Howard Sasportas
2) If life does not change, it dies, and yet paradoxically we are so frightened of death that we try to hold back the flow of life. Without knowing it, we are caught in a masculine idealized image, a longing for perfection that denies the feminine with its understanding of darkness, decay, and destruction. Without darkness there can be no birth; nothing creative can take place. Without destruction there can be no cycle of life, only a sterile environment in which nothing grows. If we do not accept the darkness, life will lose whatever meaning it has left. If we do not allow ourself to live in the darkness, the doors of revelation will remain closed.
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
3) The shadow, when it is realized, is the source of renewal; the new and productive impulse cannot come from established values of the ego. When there is an impasse, and sterile time in our lives — despite an adequate ego development — we must look to the dark, hitherto unacceptable side which has been at our conscious disposal.
— Edward Whitmont
4) The universe had to fall apart into dust first to become its majestic, incredible, infinite self. What makes you think this breaking, this trauma, this destruction, won’t be the making of a more powerful you too?
— Nikita Gill
5) This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.
— William Shakespeare
For a deeper understanding of the Shadow, check out my article:
‘Awakening the Shero Within: Part 2 ~
The Dark Cave of the Unconscious.’
