If you want to be extraordinary, embrace what makes you ordinary.

If you want to gain clarity, embrace the mystery.

If you want to expand, embrace limitation.

If you want to feel alive, embrace the fact that you will one day die.

Positives are often born from their opposites.

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No matter how contemptible someone’s actions are… if we judge that someone, we will end up repressing parts of ourselves away into the Shadow because of that judgement.

That isn’t because we necessarily possess the same contemptible tendency. It’s because judgement causes us to polarize ourselves.

In simplest terms, Shadow Work refers to any process we use for the purpose of making the unconscious conscious.

If you are doing Shadow Work to try to fix, heal, or change yourself… this will backfire and your Shadow Work practice will have the opposite effect of what you’re intending.

We must practice Shadow Work from the intention to radically accept all parts of ourselves if we want the benefits.

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” - Carl Jung

The Unconscious is always communicating to you in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

One of the best ways to hear more of these communications is to pay attention to your dreams.

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It’s my estimate that political opinions are only about 20% based on genuine political values.

The other 80% is people using politics as an arena to grapple with the repressed parts of ourselves that reside in the Shadow.

The more aware we are of this, the more conscious our politics can become.

When we label a trait as an ‘absolute bad’ and it’s opposite as an ‘absolute good’, this causes us to repress the “bad” quality and hyper-identify with the “good” quality.

The issue with this is that this causes us to express both the “good” and “bad” qualities in negative ways.

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When you come to accept all pairs of opposites within and outside of you as integral to the fabric of reality, you naturally drop all judgements and aversions.

This enables you to reach deeper levels of self-honesty where you can acknowledge and integrate your Shadow as part of yourself.

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If we encounter a problem, (whether it be individual or collective) it’s important to look for the underlying root cause.

If we try to solve the problem by being moralistic and demonizing the fever, we will not be conscious enough to recognize and treat the actual germ.

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It’s a common misconception that the Shadow is only home to our ‘bad’ parts.

In actuality, there are no inherently bad parts… only neutral aspects of our personality that can be expressed in beneficial or detrimental ways.

And this is why the Shadow is FULL of untapped potentials!

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"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate." - Carl Jung

Look at the repeat patterns in your life, and you'll find the symptoms of your Shadow.

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