Rod Boothroyd > Quotes

“Your shadow is the part of your unconscious where you put all of the energies, emotions, thoughts, feelings and behaviours that for one reason or another were not acceptable when you were a child. Not acceptable, that is, either to you or to the people around you.”
― Rod Boothroyd, Warrior, Magician, Lover, King: A Guide to The Male Archetypes Updated for the 21st Century

“And so a child soon learns which parts of himself need to be suppressed for maximum love to be bestowed upon him; and the parts which are not wanted by the world or the people in it usually get shoved forcibly into the child’s unconscious, into what Robert Bly aptly termed the “Shadow Bag”.”
― Rod Boothroyd, Warrior, Magician, Lover, King: A Guide to The Male Archetypes Updated for the 21st Century

“Integrity means that you do what you say you will do, you are who you say you are, and your actions match your words. So integrity means you live in truth. You know you are responsible for the consequences of your actions, intended or unintended. You accept those responsibilities.”
― Rod Boothroyd, Warrior, Magician, Lover, King: A Guide to The Male Archetypes Updated for the 21st Century