Carole

“The cure of the shadow is on the one hand a moral problem, that is, recognition of what we have repressed, how we perform our repressions, how we rationalize and deceive ourselves, what sort of goals we have and what we have hurt, even maimed, in the name of these goals. On the other hand, the cure of the shadow is a problem of love. How far can our love extend to the broken and ruined parts of ourselves, the disgusting and perverse? How much charity and compassion have we for our own weakness and sickness?... Loving oneself is no easy matter just because it means loving all of oneself, including the shadow where one is inferior and socially so unacceptable. The care one gives this humiliating part is also the cure. More: as the cure depends on care, so does caring sometimes mean nothing more than carrying.”
― James Hillman, Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

“the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”
― Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

“He must give up his identification with original unconscious wholeness and voluntarily accept being a real fragment instead of an unreal whole.”
― Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

“The one who learns to live with his incapacity has learned a great deal.”
― Sonu Shamdasani, The Red Book: Liber Novus