Shadow Work Demystified

What if Over-identification with Identity is Ego’s Biggest Trick and Trap?

I’m writing a chapter on narcissism, one of the longest chapters in the book because it’s a very important subject, and I’m telling myself, ‘Robert, you’re quite a narcissist.’

Welcome to the club.

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The moment you open your mouth to speak, you are essentially not telling the truth. — Robert Greene

That’s right. Because by definition, the deepest truth is both verbally inexpressible and existentially inescapable. Hence, until we can face this simple, tautological, galling inevitable verity, there is zero hope for living a life even approximating a sense of genuine integrity. It is what it is, and what it is is way beyond petty games of winning and losing. Resistance is never futile; however, it can be eternally self-defeating and self-destructive when that which is opposed is eternal.

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