"Human consciousness does not emerge at any depth
except through
struggling with our shadow.
I wish someone had told me that when I was
young.
It is in facing our conflicts, criticisms, and contradictions
that we grow up.
We actually need to have some problems, enemies, and
faults!
We will remain largely unconscious as a human being
until
issues come into our life that we cannot fix or control
and something
challenges us at our present level of development,
forcing us
to expand and deepen.
It is in the struggle with our shadow self,
with
failure, or with wounding,
that we break into higher levels of
consciousness.
I doubt whether there is any other way.
People who refine
this consciousness to a high spiritual state,
who learn to name and
live with paradoxes,
are the people I would call prophetic speakers.
We
must refine and develop this gift"
~Richard Rohr
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