“The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you're vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.” ~Ram Dass What happens when the shadow is not integrated soon enough? The longer the shadow is ignored, the more powerful it becomes. The festering darkness compounds and intensifies to the point that one is swallowed fro