How to Deal With Dissonance in Life

As humans we have the tendency to be able to live dissonantly, it's basically acknowledging that and not trying to bury it by self justifying or hiding the dissonant behaviour. For instance looking at the hypocrisy of espousing certain values and then going against them in certain actions. I think if we honestly want to consciously create something that is better than we have been able to create so far then it requires a grappling with the darker sort of shadow side of how we live  and what humanity is capable of.