“It’s important to be clear and honest here: by its very nature, shadow work is not fun or pretty. It takes courage and fortitude to see parts of our being that are not as we wish then to be, and that mess with our self image. It takes enormous resilience and dedication to transform these parts of ourselves into something healthy and beneficial. And once we decide to meet the shadow’s darkness, it inevitably moves toward greater and greater light.

The energies locked in the shadow elements now get released and can be directed toward supporting transfiguration through integration. This is both beautiful and exciting. Significantly, it is also the beginning of the end of suffering.”

-from Wasteland to Pureland; Reflections on the Path of Awakening [D. Duncan/C. Pawasarat]

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