Shadow Life Quotes

“If you don’t accept yourself, you can’t transcend yourself and the world: first, you need to increase your awareness, then you need to accept what you learn, then you need to take action.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Your Shadow is all of the things, 'positive' and 'negative', that you’ve denied about yourself and hidden beneath the surface of the mask you forgot that you’re wearing.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Life is too short for unreality and you don’t owe anybody anything - especially your time, energy, and attention.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“The Ego is the ‘thing’ that you’ve created to keep hiding from your Shadow, convinced that it’s all the ‘light’ or ‘good’ things about you – when in reality, the ego is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’ because it’s totally unreal.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“The Shadow Life is real life but it can only be for those who don’t deny the truth about themselves, the world, and reality by becoming AWARE, cultivating unconditional ACCEPTANCE, and talking real ACTION.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Real always works.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“What you’re looking for is ‘inside’ you but you can only reclaim it by shattering the mirror on which it reflects itself back at you. When the mirror is shattered, the shards reveal your Real Face.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Whether you know it or you don’t, whether you accept it or not, everything you do is about the reclamation of your own ‘soul’.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Your Ego and your Shadow are in constant conflict.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Anybody who doesn’t at least have some rough edges is being unreal – they’re bullshitting themselves and they’re bullshitting you too.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Life is short and the opposite of life is bullshit.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“We have to get over the fear of being seen in a certain imperfect light if we want to stand any chance of really shining and being real, healed, and whole again.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“Your Shadow isn’t a ‘thing’ or even a ‘place’ but a relationship that you have with certain parts of yourself that you’ve hidden. By improving this relationship, you can improve your life.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“To really free ourselves and live our Shadow Lives, we have to be able to not just remove the mask we’ve been wearing but to look at the monster that hides beneath it and learn to love it.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“Most of the bullshit in our lives is a product of us first bullshitting ourselves.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“The more bullshit we have in our lives, the more unreal we’re being with ourselves.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“Give me something real or GTFO” - it works every time.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“If you expect disappointment, you won’t be disappointed.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World