Shadow Side Quotes

• Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

  John Bradshaw

  Dark, Order, Evil

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• How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Psychology, Shadow

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

  Brennan Manning

  Mean, Dark, Light

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Dark, Self, Shadow

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• Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

  Kyan Douglas

  Light, Shadow, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Fun, Mean, Dark

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• Everybody naturally wants to abide in that highest frequency of the heart, and it is often through intimate relationships that we are able to fully know this divine love within ourselves. These close relationships provide us not only with the experience of the highest joy and love in life, but also offer the opportunity for profound self-awareness, because each relationship mirrors both our bright attributes and our shadow sides.

  John Friend

  Heart, Opportunity, Self

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• My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

  Gary Busey

  Party, Kids, Dark

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Scary, Solitude

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Oil, Blood, Together

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• There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only thing that I say to myself is, in the spirit of that quote from the Gnostic Gospels: Writing is a way to let all that stuff out into the sun.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Creative, Shadow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. It's called, simply, PAYBACK. Jennifer didn't want to do a transliteration of the book, a kind of illustrated version, but to go into the core of the book: owing and being owed, paying and paying back, on all sorts of levels. So she found real-life, visceral stories that embodied the themes of the book.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Book, Shadow

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• I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

  Margaret Atwood

  Shadow, Payback, Debt

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• Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

  John Hagelin

  Ignorance, Light, Darkness

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Pain, Real, Lying

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• You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

  Jennifer Beals

  Feel Better, Evil, Shadow

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• It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineered structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away.

  Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev

  Light, Wings, Long

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• Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.Under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard,In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed;Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Lying, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.40

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