Tag Archives: shadow
Fear of being taken over had made me suspicious almost all of my life. Mistrust of force. Mistrust of power games. Mistrust of competition. Mistrust of chasing respect. My own destructive shadow. Looking deep down into myself. Looking into my own manipulating behaviour. Relating with an agenda. Chasing respect. The world as enemies. My own shadow was destroying me along the way. My biggest fear. Now I embrace my own manipulating shadow. I embrace everyone’s manipulating shadow. Seeing the shadow…..
We as mankind stand in a dilemma today. We see the energy of conflict (consciousness of duality) as well as the energy of harmony (consciousness of unity) in the world. In our individual life we stand in this dilemma too. Our lower self believes we need pretty clothes, the newest gadgets, success, to relate with interesting people… Our shadows, as the neediness of our inner child, which can show up in unhealthy habits, are the expression of our lower self……
Where we want something from someone, we just want ourself. Where we pull something away from us, we just pull ourself away from us. We just project our own universe out there. Whenever we admire someone – e.g. the Dalai Lama – we would like to be important, wise, loving or whatever we see in the other person. The solution is to take the admired feature back to us and live it ourselves. Whenever we despise a person (who comes automatically…..