shadow

"If there are bright, shining aspects, there should be a counterbalancing dark side.”

You have to patiently learn to live together with your shadows. Sometimes in a deep place you have to confront your own dark side.

It is a necessary thing to do, because if you don't, before long your shadow will grow ever stronger and will return, some night, to knock at the door of your house. ‘I’m back,’ it’ll whisper to you,”

--Haruki Murakami