title: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life
author:  Connie Zweig 
description: "This book is a great help to anyone trying to tune in and listen to the voice of the soul. At last, a practical mysticism!"<br />--Coleman Barks<br />Poet-translator of The Essential Rumi<br /><br />"A compelling, evocative book that brilliantly elucidates the shadow in straightforward language. Shadow-work is our greatest challenge to becoming a global village."<br />--Marion Woodman<br /> Author of Dancing in the Flames:<br /> The Dark Goddess in the Transforming Consciousness<br /><br />"A consummate and timely work . . . An exciting entry into the growing literature on the dark side of the soul. There is deep wisdom and nourishment here."<br />--New Age Journal<br /><br />"Romancing the Shadow enables you to peel away the layers of your soul and get in touch with the purity of Being that lies within you."<br />--Deepak Chopra<br /> Author of Seven Spiritual Laws of Success<br /> and A Path to Love
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  IlluminationBooks: A Foreword ix
  
  Introduction 1
  
  Chapter One 7
  
  The Secrets That Keep Us Sane
  
  Chapter Two 21
  
  Finding Her Way
  
  Chapter Three 33
  
  The Sanity of Silence
  
  Chapter Four 53
  
  The Sanity of Loving Freely
  
  Chapter Five 59
  
  The Divine Perspective of Charity
  
  Chapter Six 72
  
  An Attended Life, an Authentic Life
  
  Notes 83
  
    
  
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  Permission has been granted to the author to reprint excerpts from the
  following books:
  
  Story of a Soul, translated by John Clarke, O.C.D. Copyright © 1975, 1976 by
  Washington Province of Discalced Carmelite Friars, Inc. ICS Publications, 2131
  Lincoln Road NE, Washington, D.C. 20002.
  
  St. Therese of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations, translat