Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams

When we deny certain aspects of ourselves, we overcompensate by becoming their opposite.

Our indignation over the behavior of others is usually about an unresolved aspect of ourselves.

Keeping your word is essential to your plan for change. What you say to yourself and others does count. If you tell yourself that you are going to eat healthier foods and don't do it you are broadcasting to yourself and the universe that you can't be trusted.

If you want to manifest your full potential you have to reclaim the parts of yourself that you've denied, hidden, or given away to others.

To alter our perception we must search each moment in our past until we find a powerful interpretation that allows us to take responsibility.

In a funny way, as soon as I name these aspects of myself, I feel fondness for them.

You deserve to have whatever it is you see and truly desire. The only difference between you and the people you idolize is that they are manifesting one of the qualities you desire and probably fulfilling their dreams.

Our dark side acts as a storehouse for all these unacceptable aspects of ourselves—all the things we pretend not to be and all the aspects that embarrass us.

gifts, our creativity, and our talents. And when these parts of ourselves go unclaimed they stagnate inside us: we use them against our world instead of in harmony with it.