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Book: Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
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  1. Robert A. Johnson _ Owning Your Own Shadow:

    Heaven and skid row are separated only by an act of consciousness.
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  2. Robert A. Johnson _ Owning Your Own Shadow:

    Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely on unconscious expressions: war, violence, psychosomatic illness, neurotic suffering, and accidents are very low-grade ways of living out the shadow. Ceremony and ritual are a far more intelligent means of accomplishing the same thing. Ceremonies
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  3. Robert A. Johnson _ Owning Your Own Shadow:

    Whenever you have a clash of opposites in your being and neither will give way to the other {the bush will not be consumed and the fire will not stop}, you can be certain that God is present. We dislike this experience intensely and avoid it at any cost; but if we can endure it, the conflict-without-resolution is a direct experience of God. A
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  4. Robert A. Johnson _ Owning Your Own Shadow:

    If you can touch your shadow-within form-and do something out of your ordinary pattern, a great deal of energy will flow from it.
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  5. Robert A. Johnson _ Owning Your Own Shadow:

    To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self.
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  6. Robert A. Johnson _ Owning Your Own Shadow:

    The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla.
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  7. Robert A. Johnson _ Owning Your Own Shadow:

    Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. 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 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."
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