Your Own Darkness

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Further reading: How to Find Yourself

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Go and Do Likewise

Humble Yet Confident

You Are Loved

Cast the First Stone

Making Mistakes

Sin

Evil

Shame