For those who would seek virtue:

The news media is not the only ones that edit, conservatives and liberals are editing what they hear and see all the time. We tend to pick the facts that validate us, our ideology and worldview. The world presents us with a smorgasbord of perceptions that we can establish our truths on. As the Buddhists maintain, we attach ourselves to these perceptions to create ourselves, define who we are, cling to our desires. What we need to always remember is what Alan Watts called the “wisdom of insecurity”. The roots of our inhumanity to each other lies in our need to be certain, to be a self defined by truth and thus, situated securely in our being. Whenever we cling to our truths we also create an underside, a possibility for being wrong, for being untrue. This shadow follows all that would truly “be”. The inhumanity comes when we forget that we essentially have the capacity to be wrong, to be untrue, to lack. The “wisdom of insecurity” is a letting go of our forgetfulness, our need to cling to our truths and insist that we are true, right, holy, pure, etc. Carl Jung talked about the psychological assimilation of the shadow self. The Buddhists talk about release from samsara (playful illusion of birth, death and rebirth). Lao Tzu tells us:

If you want to become whole,
first let yourself become broken.
If you want to become straight,
first let yourself become twisted.
If you want to become full,
first let yourself become empty.
If you want to become new,
first let yourself become old.
Those whose desires are few get them,
those whose desires are great go astray.

“Tao Te Ching”, Section 22

Nietzsche, speaking of virtue writes:

And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.
Ah! how ineptly cometh the word “virtue” out of their mouth! And when they say: “I am just,” it always soundeth like: “I am just—revenged!”
With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.
And again there are those who sit in their swamp, and speak thus from among the bulrushes: “Virtue—that is to sit quietly in the swamp.
We bite no one, and go out of the way of him who would bite; and in all matters we have the opinion that is given us.”
And again there are those who love attitudes, and think that virtue is a sort of attitude.
Their knees continually adore, and their hands are eulogies of virtue, but their heart knoweth naught thereof.
And again there are those who regard it as virtue to say: “Virtue is necessary”; but after all they believe only that policemen are necessary.
And many a one who cannot see men’s loftiness, calleth it virtue to see their baseness far too well: thus calleth he his evil eye virtue.—
And some want to be edified and raised up, and call it virtue: and others want to be cast down,—and likewise call it virtue.
And thus do almost all think that they participate in virtue; and at least every one claimeth to be an authority on “good” and “evil.”
But Zarathustra came not to say unto all those liars and fools: “What do YE know of virtue! What COULD ye know of virtue!”—
But that ye, my friends, might become weary of the old words which ye have learned from the fools and liars:
That ye might become weary of the words “reward,” “retribution,” “punishment,” “righteous vengeance.”—

“Thus Spake Zarathustra” XXVII. THE VIRTUOUS

Jesus admonishes us to “watch out that the light in you is not darkness.” Luke 11: 35