Nothing left to prove and to do

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
Orson Welles

Someone asked a question regarding our shadow work and asked when it would end to which I responded that you would expect that it should stop one day. Someone else responded, ‘sure it does, when we die!’ How would I know. I still feel conflicting parts in me and the only progress that I have made is that I am no longer judging myself for it. When I read Orson Welles’ assessment I saw the image of an engine. The deeper the conflict, and the less understood, the harder we work towards resolving it. Initially we project our inner struggles into something else, but as our self-awareness increases we are increasingly able to address the conflicts themselves.

Awakening brings understanding and peace and mind. Increasingly we realize there is little left to prove and to do.