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

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.

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.

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.

Mangers consolidate the present. Leaders create the future.

There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or three miles long, and, at that distance, a girl's uterus could fall out.

A woman’s heart is not bought by the currency of a man’s emotion for her. A woman’s heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around.

I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.