The shadow is that part of you that you won’t allow to show through, that includes good – I mean potent – as well as dangerous and disastrous aspects of your potential … You should find a way to realise your shadow in life somehow.*
Joseph Campbell

The truth is there’s no metric for what matters, no way to measure meaning.**
Bernadette Jiwa

We tend to measure what can be measured,
Which shifts our focus to what we can measure and
away from what we cannot,
But what about these things we can’t calculate –
How what we are doing resonates with what we find meaningful,
How our soul is growing, how our Ego is declining
and our True Self is developing,
How our being rather than doing is fairing –
How goes our self-reflection?

Measuring can be very helpful, but
it may cover over how
what we are measuring doesn’t matter to us
as much as we think it does.

*Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss;
**Bernadette Jiwa’s Briefly blog: The Measure of Us.