Don’t turn from the dark side—of you

We do it every time we explain people doing terrible things by insisting they must be ignorant, mentally ill or subhuman. And it’s understandable: the darker parts of ourselves are-well, dark.

Easier to turn away than face that head-on.

But to turn from our dark side is to turn from all of our self. To shut off our capacity for pain is to also shut off our capacity for joy…