Do you have a SHADOW ?

We live in these aggressively secular - warrior  times. 

The entire business, conversion, cults, gurus and New Age beliefs can be so messy.  Especially when science negates intuition and the big questions are being settled without thoughtfulness but according to what is convenient  at the moment. 

Having beliefs doesn’t mean they are unchanging, certain, or to be imposed on others. 

Highly sensitive people a.k.a modern ninjas, who are used to a rich intellectual life may have suffered much pain, but the damage to their inner lives become their strength. 

The modern ninjas  aka highly sensitive people are able to retreat from their terrible surroundings to a life of inner riches and spiritual freedom. 

Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is the one of the great creative and ethical opportunities for MODERN NINJA. 

The pursuit of wholeness is really a kind of circling closer and closer through different meanings, different voices.

One never arrives, yet gets a better and better idea of what which is at the centre. But if we really circle, there is little chance for arrogance because we are passing through every sort of experience of ourselves.

This is the pursuit of wholeness, not perfection, and wholeness must by definition include the imperfect. 

These imperfections can be described as one’s shadow, that which contanins all that we have repressed, rejected, denied, and disliked about OURSELVES. When we choose not to obey them, as we should, they do not go away entirely. Some of the just go UNDERGROUND. 

In getting to know our shadow, the idea is that it is better to acknowledge our unpleasant aspect and keep an eye on them rather than to throw them out the frond door for good, only to have them slip in the back when we’re not looking. 

Usually the people who are the most dangerous and in danger, morally speaking, are those who are certain they would never do anything wrong, who are totally self- righteous and have no idea that they have a shadow. 

The greater chance of behaving morally,  comes with knowing about your shadow, its energies and that brings vitality and depth to a personality when integrated in a conscious way. Way of modern ninja. 

No one achieves wholeness. Ebodied human life has limits - we cannot be fully both shadow and light, male and female, conscious and unconscious. 

As soon as we act in this imperfect world, using our imperfect bodies, we are simultaneously a perfect being and an imperfect one.