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Discover Our Humanity

by Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams from Meeting the Shadow — — Comments (0)

Everything with substance casts a shadow. The ego stands to the shadow as light to shade. This is the quality that makes us human. Much as we would like to deny it, we are imperfect. And perhaps it is in what we don’t accept about ourselves—our aggression and shame, our guilt and pain—that we discover our humanity.

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