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"Ignorance is like a
shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of
light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it,
stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or
physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must
shine light on it." - Shakti Gawain
"To
strip an idea down to its core, we must be masters of exclusion.
We must create ideas that are both simple and profound, something so
laser and to the point that an individual can want to spend a lifetime
becoming masterful at
'it'.
Once they know something, they can't begin to imagine what it would be
like to not know it"
- Heath and Heath
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.
The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who
see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no
respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while
some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people
who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones
who do."- Jack Kerouac
Perspective is both the angle you see yourself and your life
from as well as the viewing height. The higher the perspective, the
clearer the view. A Shadow Coach helps you increase your perspective by
helping you see what you're not paying attention to, by asking
illuminating questions, introducing paradoxes, and co-creating
stimulating arenas and environments that will expand your thinking, as
your world unfolds
To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his
own light. Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand
judgingly between the opposites, one begins to understand what is meant
by the self. Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light
simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.
- Jung "Good and Evil in Analytical Psychology"
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most
conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. - John
Ruskin
"To heal is to change the
perception of a condition - not the condition! This is true perception."
The very concept of opposites is a concept of division, of split seeing.
We only see one side of the whole at a time. If someone paid us with a
coin we most certainly would not say: 'I dislike the tail side of the
coin, give me the head side only'. (Peter Erbe)
A coin comes with two
sides, like life with light and shadow
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what
we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice
there is little we can do to change, until we notice how failing to
notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." - R.D. Laing
Or as I like to ask...what do you need to know that you
don't know?
Once you acknowledge your Shadow and accept that it's there and
comes out to play when you lease expect it or want it to, it starts
becoming one with you and no longer is something you use so much energy
to hide away....a path to becoming more whole and at one with yourself.
Extraordinary journey
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures
of light, but by making the darkness conscious." - Carl Jung
Through acknowledging our shadows we start seeing
light, shape and dimension.
"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark." - Zen
saying
"Sometimes clarity is better than a solution" - Craig
Trowhill (from my SOSC class Toronto)
Once you see it, whether shadow or not, you'll remember
it's there and pay attention to it, then make an informed choice as to
what you want to do with it
Zen saying, "Wherever you go, there you are"
That means all of you, shadow included. It's what you do with
all who you are that makes the difference in where it is you're "going"
"Seek
out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply
and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says,
"This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
- William James
"When I let go of
what I am, I become what I might be."
- Lao Tzu
