The balance of light and dark is ultimately possible—and bearable. All nature lives in polarity—light and dark, creation and destruction, up and down, male and female.* It is not surprising that we find the same basic laws functioning in our psychological structure. In German there is a term, doppelgänger, meaning one’s mirror image, one’s opposite. Goethe was profoundly affected when he approached his home one evening and was met by a vision of his doppelgänger, the other one who lived in his personality. Few of us have so vivid an experience of our shadow, but whether we know it or not our
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