The only ones who conquer the shadow don’t fight it; they transcend it. When you transcend, you go beyond. In everyday life we transcend all the time. For example, when a mother sees her young child being cranky and demanding, she doesn’t meet the child on those grounds. She realizes that he’s tired and needs to sleep. What has she done? She has transcended the level of the problem, moving to a different level to find the solution. This gives rise to a spiritual truth: the level of the problem is never the level of the solution.
