One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
– C.G. Jung
Everyone has a shadow.
A part of the psyche, the soul, that is unacknowledged, disowned, and unaccepted.
You can’t really get rid of the shadow. But, you can deny it. This denial causes those disowned aspects of the self to appear “out there” in the world and particularly in other people. Those qualities that you react to most strongly in others – both weaknesses and strengths – are clues to what lies within your own shadow.
Who is a person that triggers strong emotional reactions in you?
What is it about this person that you “can’t stand”? How are you like that?
Or that you “deeply admire”? How are you like that?
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