A shadow.  Recently I have been exploring aspects of my soul as I read Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul, A Guide For Cultivating Depth and Sacredness In Everyday Life.   I like to think that I am honest with myself.  However, Regena Larrabee Seehausen said to me once. “It is hard to know how you are perceived by others. ”  And in fact I am finding that others sometimes see my shadow where I feel I am radiating light. The shadow is the flip side, the dark side where we are not, or where other aspects of our personalities,  besides what we think we are showing , dwell.   I have long thought that our good and bad qualities are the same.  We just exist and interact, as we are or make ourselves to be.  What we consider good and bad are aspects of the same qualities.   Much more poetically Regena Larrabee Seehausen  (1964) says something related to this in:

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