We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.
It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing.
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.