Your dark side is inevitable. This isn’t something that exists separately from you or outside of you. Your dark side is a part of you. The dark side is the aggregation of all our underlying fears, micro aggression, envy, insecurities, and issues. Accepting it is hard because it is a direct attack on our ego. It denies everything you are used to knowing about yourself and breaks the “good” image of yourself you have so carefully crafted throughout your life. We may feel that identifying with our shadow, that represents everything dark and malicious, makes us a bad person. It doesn’t. The truth is, all of us are human and capable of malevolent things.

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