If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wron…

- Connie Zweig

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

- Connie Zweig

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

- Connie Zweig

Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you …

- Connie Zweig

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…

- Connie Zweig

There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.

- Connie Zweig

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as w…

- Connie Zweig

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

- Connie Zweig

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

- Connie Zweig