
Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness.
C. G. Jung • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Book 10)

Karl Jung said this about ‘the Shadow’ in one of his books: ‘It is as evil as we are positive … the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive. … The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and beco
... See moreHaruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
