#shadow

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

I'd rather be whole than good.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow.

The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The sun finds of itself no shadow; it is the obstacles that cast the shade.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem most respectable, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.