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

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.

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.

So he was handsome. That fact did nothing to soften her feelings toward the walking interference she studied across the room.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love

Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?

As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

The perfection of rottenness.