Shadow

"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth."

-Sylvia Plath

"Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

-Carl Jung

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”

-Gregory Maguire​

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

-Joseph Campbell

“The most dangerous psychological mistake is the projection of the shadow on to others: this is the root of almost all conflicts.”

-Carl Jung

“No matter how hard you try, you cannot get rid of darkness because it does not exist. It is nothing but the absence of light. In order to effect darkness, you must do something with light, because the light is the only thing that actually exists.”

-Teal Swan

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his own heart.”

-Goethe

"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

-African proverb