“I know of the hatred and envy of your hearts. You are not great enough not to know hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!” I have been thinking a lot about this and I don't know what this means. What does it mean to you, if you are so willing to share?

We don’t embrace our darker sides enough; we don’t embrace our instincts, our vanities, our private envies and generally the complexities which make us what we are — simply human. We live under the constant awareness of the “evils” of our characters because we’re not innerly strong enough to conceive even the possibility of truly accepting our deepest humanity. When it comes to us, we accept as parts of us only our “positive” traits and we shut out or wilfully turn a blind eye to whatever about us that seems “bad” or “unknown”. We don’t have the faintest conception about what really is us and lack the courage to dig deeper and find out. That’s why we’re not great enough to know anything, even hatred and envy. Because deep inside we don’t want to know them. We’re afraid of our private darkness, refuse to look at it for what it is. So Nietzsche is all about: Our humanity doesn’t have to do with the purity of our being. It has to do with wholeness; wholeness is the core of our being and it is our duty to attempt knowing it. Be human. Know your darkness and know your light. Embody both. If you can’t know your darkness, if you’re unwilling to know it and therefore unworthy of knowing it, then at least do not be ashamed of it. Do not dare feel “shame” over something you’ve no idea of in the first place. The falseness of that particular sense of shame is disgusting because we don’t own it enough. It just becomes us out of fear; out of fear of connecting with what we’re most afraid of.