Shadow Work

"Now I know that 'right' without its shadow partner 'wrong', is a brittle and untested ideal.  Now I know that when we only show our light side to the world, our shadow grows restless, sucking into itself much of our energy and passion.   In order to release my trapped energy and awaken my best qualities, I had to engage my shadow.   I had to see how everything that I judged and feared in others was also in me.   I had to be broken open so fully that my whole self was laid out before me to own and forgive and love."  Elizabeth Lesser