The "integration of the negative" rather than insisting that God values perfection or an idealized morality, Francis of Assisi intuited, through the example of Jesus’ life and death, that God could be found in all things, even those our religion and culture urge us to reject. Therapists call this pattern of admitting our shortcomings and failures “embracing our shadow.” Such surrendering of superiority, or even a need for superiority, is central to any authentic enlightenment. The Beatitudes are all about incorporating what seems like disorder (a negative), which promotes a much better and different level of consciousness. (Rohr)