CARL JUNG

On a personal level, your compassion is sabotaged by feelings of ill will toward others: spite and malice. These feelings, and others arising out of emotional wounds and personal pain, are actually symptoms indicating that you need to have compassion for yourself.

The shadow is part of the unconscious mind, made up of our repressed ideas, desires, weaknesses, shortcomings and instincts. In our attempt to portray a certain persona, we create this shadow, our cache of envy, greed, prejudice, hate and violence.

It is a darker side of o...

Social isolation in large doses increases the probability of physical and psychological problems like heart disease or depression.

Short-term aloneness is beneficial and for that, we need to first figure out how our life is going and how can we fit in solitude time in our day.