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

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.

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what all of this meant and simply die of fright.

Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

There's no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.

People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.