I think author and activist Parker Palmer said it best when he addressed the 2015 graduating class at Naropa University: “Take everything that is bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself. Let your altruism meet your egoism, let your generosity meet your greed, let your joy meet your grief . . . but when you are able to say ‘I am all of the above, my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service to the good.” And you have found your dharma.
