Lil’s Reviews > Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery > Status Update

"...then does the possibility of mature love exist. If one person is in love and the other not, the cooler one is likely to say, 'We would have something better between us if you would look at me rather than at your image of me.'"

Mandorlas reveal the place where light and dark meet--the almond section of two partially overlapping circles.

Religion, when defined using Latin roots, means "to bind together again."

"One does a curious kind of insult to another by falling in love with him, for we are really looking at our own projection of God, not at the other person. If two people are in love, they tread on star dust for a time and live happily ever after--that is so long as this experience of divinity has obliterated time for them. Only when they come down to earth do they have to look at each other realistically and only..."

Re: burnout: "I told him he...would have to contact the unlived shadow if he wished to find a new vitality...His involuntary swearing had been a good start. Correctly handled, this would lead to a new source of creativity and give him a new lease on life. Stupidly handled, it would lead only to destruction, and to the loss of form and structure. Heaven and skid row are separated only by an act of consciousness."