🌒 shadow
How I Tamed My Envy of Almost Everyone but Especially Elizabeth Gilbert
Kirsten Powerskirstenpowers.substack.com
follow your shadow
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)
Kenny Shopsin "You're Not That Terrific"
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‘Darkness is passing,’ said Gandalf, ‘but it still lies heavy on this City.’
J.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
But the shadow of horror wheeled and returned, passing lower now, right above them, sweeping the fen-reek with its ghastly wings. And then it was gone, flying back to Mordor with the speed of the wrath of Sauron; and behind it the wind roared away, leaving the Dead Marshes bare and bleak. The naked waste, as far as the eye could pierce, even to the
... See moreJ.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
The unwanted and the shadow imagination are real and necessary parts of our inner landscape. They’re wisdom, dipped in discomfort.
How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
‘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 becomes the devil. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint o
... See moreHaruki Murakami • 1Q84 (Vintage International)
However, what is less known is that we can also project buried talents and positive qualities onto others. Jung called this the ‘Golden Shadow,’ which contains the creative potential and greatness in ourselves that we are unable to see (except in other people), perhaps because we were shamed for these qualities or maybe because owning them would be... See more