Inner Child & Subconscious Work

] It is the villain that creates the hero. The hero can only begin when the villain ends, and vice versa. You need a villain. You need contrast. Darkness is not the absence of light. It is the opposed or opposite or absorbed condition of light's reflection. And when we try in this world to get rid of things out of ourselves and we look in the mirror and we say, 'I do not like this about myself.' All that happens is those things that you do not like about yourself end up showing up in your world all around you. If you do not like that you are arrogant, you feel the need to deflect it onto someone else, maybe project it on someone else, and say, 'Oh, that guy is so arrogant.' Guess what. If you are the person that is complaining about being surrounded by it, it is because you are the. You are what you judge. Just like the Buddha said, and he says it very clearly. 'I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am.' It is a mirror reflected universe. Remember, if you spot something in someone else, that means you have it too. Every trigger becomes an opportunity for growth. What we experience is reflected back to us from the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected and cast out. When we finally learn how to integrate and accept those parts in love and grace, the world starts to change. We no longer need that lesson because it has been integrated.