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Compassion Toward Our Shadow and Neuroses

“Suffering is cut when we have compassion toward our shadow and neuroses, when we are able to see them not as some separate thing but as an integral, lively part of us. These contorted dimensions of experience are not an alien species or mental virus occupying part of our system. They are part of us. They should not be hated, because then we would be hating ourselves, which is a form of violence. In that spirit, we completely embrace human neuroses, knowing that they are not intrinsically bad but are part of the whole human experience. These are the powerful negative forces frozen by ego, sometimes stagnated, that then become a source of suffering.”

Excerpt From
Into the Haunted Ground
Anam Thubten