Shadow Self Quotes:

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Flames, Shadow, Casts, Clash Of Kings, Shadow Self

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

- Carl Jung

topic: Real, Dark, Shadow Work, Long Periods Of Time, Shadow Self

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem, My Own Life, Inspiring Self Esteem

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Self, Enemy, Shadow, Shadow Self

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

- Lorraine Toussaint

topic: Dark, Self, Shadow, Dark Side, Shadow Self

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

- Charlotte Whitton

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Nature, Inspirational Cancer, Light And Shadow

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Men, Soul, Shadow, Shadow Self

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Prayer, Home, Self, Shadow Self

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.

- John J. Geddes

topic: Heart, Dark, Reflection, Shadow Self

Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.

- Alyson Noel

topic: Dark, Self, Differences, Shadow Self

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

- Richard Rohr

source: Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Self, Years, Shadow, Shadow Self

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management