A realisation

or rather… accept that the darkness, aka “the shadow,” and all it contains or conceals, is also part of you; it’s part of everyone. Only some accept it; only some admit it; only some are able to successfully integrate with it… most people “reject it from themselves,” and watch in horror as they perceive it manifesting as events in the world, believing it separate from themselves. Those are people who fear the darkness, and they fear it because it is unknown, because they have not faced it, have not fought those monsters, have not gazed into that abyss… and have not felt that abyss gaze back into them.

They fear that darkness, and they will fear you along with it… while it is only themselves, they should fear… because their refusal and/or inability to confront their own true selves, and their subsequent rejection of self-knowledge, prevents them from controlling what all that rejected darkness will manifest into the same world we all share.

You don’t have to “be darkness.” But “stepping through my [your] shadow, coming out the other side,” should clear the way toward understanding yourself, and becoming who you truly are… which can indeed be a terrifying process… but which should also lead to the appreciation of what Jung deemed “the privilege of a lifetime” (becoming who you truly are).

But don’t worry: it’s just more “you” in there. No sense being afraid of yourself. You have more chance to control yourself, than you do anyone else… even if it’s a bit scary to face the fact that you might not be who you always thought you were, or who you wanted to think you would become.