Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery

by Robert A. Johnson

My good friend Jack Sanford, a Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest in San Diego, was giving one of his finely crafted lectures and, in his usual careful style, made this startling comment: “You must understand, God loves your shadow much more than he does your ego!”