pondering

"Instead of being hypnotized by the enemy we need to begin looking at the eyes with which we see the enemy... We need to become conscious of..."the shadow." The heroes and leaders toward peace in our time will be those men and women who have the courage to plunder into the darkness at the bottom of the personal and corporate psyche and face the enemy within. Depth psychology has presented us with the undeniable wisdom that the enemy is constructed from denied aspects of the self.
     ~ Sam Keen, 1991, "The Enemy Maker" (in C. Zweig & J. Abrams, Meeting the Shadow), p. 198-199