Mirror 03 · The Self
The Shadow You Avoid
“What you refuse to see in yourself does not disappear. It waits in the periphery, growing stronger on the nourishment of your denial, until the day it steps into the light whether you are ready or not.”
The conservator's studio overlooked the Arno River in Florence, on the third floor of a palazzo that had stood since the Medici. The light that entered through the tall windows was soft and northern, the kind of even, diffused illumination that revealed every crack in the pigment without casting har...
Reflection question
What would change in your life if you truly believed this?