Great Throughts Treasury

"Jung said the truth of the matter is that the shadow is ninety percent gold. Whatever has been repressed holds a tremendous amount of energy, with a great positive potential. So the shadow, no matter how troublesome it may be, is not intrinsically evil. The ego, in its refusal of insight and its refusal to accept the entire personality, contributes much more to evil than the shadow."

"To try to be good, and disregard one's darkness, is to fall victim to the evil in ourselves whose existence we have denied."