“This is the incredibly hard lesson of shadow research and why it’s so unbelievably important to include some form of Cleaning Up in any path of self-understanding: the things that we most despise in the world are exactly the things that we possess and most despise in ourselves. This is so hard because we convinced that we have none of those horrid traits; we’re free of them. Of course, the reason that we think we’re completely free of this hated quality is that we’ve denied, disowned, and projected all ours. We’re not really free of it; we’ve simply repressed it. And so out it goes into the world, where we loathe and despise this quality with a self-righteous indignation and hatred that we think is altogether morally justified, because this quality is inherently so utterly evil. As the Pogo comic strip used to say, 'We have met the enemy, and it is us.' “