Tag: Shadow Work

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Shadow Work is the courageous act of reclaiming “the gold in the dark.” It is a move beyond the social persona to behold the parts of ourselves we have judged, hidden, or ignored—the unlived life pulsing beneath the surface. By withdrawing our projections from others and perceiving our own depths, we move from fragmentation toward a soulful, integrated wholeness.

  • Quoting Saint Augustine

    Quoting Saint Augustine

    “What have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions, as if they were to “heal all my diseases?” A race eager to know about another man’s life, but slothful to correct their own!” Saint Augustine

  • The Karma of Leaving

    The Karma of Leaving

    Show me the way in which the child was left, and I will show you the way in which that child grows up and later leaves others and ultimately leaves himself.

  • Baaaad Behavior

    Baaaad Behavior

    Uppity people can’t cherish their superiority privately. They’re compelled to share it in every way. They talk uppity. They act uppity. They leave no doubt in your mind as to just how remarkable they are.

  • Going Back, Moving Forward

    Going Back, Moving Forward

    Vibrant elders are still teaching, still contributing, living in growing intellectual communities. They’ve kept living fully and authentically and are still very much needed and respected.

  • Stop and Listen

    Stop and Listen

    Collectives breed dysfunction by demanding conformity. Demonizing the “other” fuels destruction, leading us down a path we reject in personal relationships yet justify as patriotism or faith. Projecting our darkest parts onto others is madness. More and more, I see wisdom in the Quaker approach to life

  • Attending to the Vision

    Attending to the Vision

    In this great pilgrimage of life, we land in darkness before long, and sometimes it’s a darkness so great we can’t see the hands in front of our faces. We wonder if we even have hands, or feet.

  • On Being Whole

    On Being Whole

    Those who have worked on themselves enough to be comfortable with who they are […] do not need or ask to be understood by others. The appropriate attitude for a long-term working relationship is not understanding, but acceptance

  • Compartments

    Compartments

    When we give up our illusions of the Good Self, we see ourselves as we are: Smaller, less accomplished, more primitive, reactionary, and selfish.

  • Broken

    Broken

    Sometimes broken means “it’s gone.” It will never be the same again. The life of the object is over. Its heirloom quality and the energy it carried for the ancestors is gone.

  • Father’s Day Redux

    Father’s Day Redux

    When we finally gave our parents what they ought to have first given us, we discovered we were repairing not only our own hearts, but tears in the fabric of the universe, too.