Connie Zweig Quotes

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.

Each of us wrestles with the dark giant in our own way.

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.