Debbie Ford

Because I had worked so hard to shut myself down, I had no patience for others who might be exposing their imperfections.

As Oprah Winfrey once said in a commencement speech, ‘Turn your wounds into wisdom.’

What you don’t own, owns you.

What I discovered was my potential to act like the people I had been most harshly judging. It became clear that I had to be on the lookout for the traits that most bothered me in others.

Our indignation over the behavior of others is usually about an unresolved aspect of ourselves.

Once the shadow is embraced, it can be healed. When it is healed it becomes love.

Most of us are living with a narrow vision of what it is to be human. When we allow our humanity to embrace our universality, we can easily become whatever it is we desire.”

The reason for doing shadow work is to become whole.

Whether you like it or not, if you’re human, you have a shadow. If you can’t see it, just ask the people in your family, or the people you work with. They’ll point it out to you. We think our masks keep our inner selves hidden, but whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

Each of us possess every existing human quality. There is nothing we can see or conceive that we are not, and the purpose of our journey is to restore ourselves to this wholeness.