All of us have blind spots – tendencies and traits that we simply refuse to admit are ours, that we refuse to accept and therefore fling into the environment where we muster all of our righteous fury and indignation to do battle with them, blinded by our own idealism to the fact that the battle is within and the enemy is much nearer home.

And all it takes to integrate these facets is that we treat ourselves with the same kindness and understanding that we afford to our friends.