Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.
The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.
As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.
Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.
If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.
Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.
I think the trick is, how do you spend time doing it but make it look like you haven't spent time doing it? Over the years you look at women like Lauren Hutton and everyone says: 'She just pulled her hair back and ran out of the door. ' I've been in fittings with Lauren and she definitely thinks about it. She just knows how to make it look easy.
Satire is focused bitterness.
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.