"The art of washing dishes is that you only have to wash one at a time. If you're doing it day after day, you have in your mind's eye an enormous stack of filthy dishes that you have washed up in years past and an enormous stack of filthy dishes which you will wash up in years future. But if you bring your mind to the state of reality which just is - as I have pointed out to you - only Now. This is where we are. There is only Now. You only have to wash one dish! It's the only dish you ever have to wash! This one"
Dr. James Hollis: confronting your own shadow may not be popular but it's essential for growth and benefits those around you by freeing them from your unfinished business
Shadow work often helps to realize that the source of our life's problems and patterns is not external, but rather a part of yourself that you've been unaware of